Matt Johnson

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What Yoram Hazony Gets Wrong About Cancel Culture

The open letter in Harper’s Magazine on the dangers of ideological conformity and the suppression of speech, signed by more than 150 leading writers and intellectuals, has been explosively controversial.…

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9 min

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Tucker Carlson’s Populism: An Ominous Sign of Things to Come

Image by Gage Skidmore On 2 June 2020, Tucker Carlson delivered a 26-minute monologue on Fox News, as part of what he described as an effort to “create a record…

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8 min

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Robert D. Kaplan, Covid-19 and the Anarchy that Never Came

Photo by Drew Hays Robert D. Kaplan’s February 1994 Atlantic article “The Coming Anarchy” was one of the most influential articles of the years immediately following the Cold War. The subtitle…

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15 min

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The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

In his 1981 book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, Peter Singer argues that our sense of moral responsibility has steadily grown to encompass larger and larger groups…

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15 min

What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell

At the end of a 1940 essay on Charles Dickens, George Orwell described his subject as a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open…

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Matt Johnson

What Yoram Hazony Gets Wrong About Cancel Culture

Tucker Carlson’s Populism: An Ominous Sign of Things to Come

Robert D. Kaplan, Covid-19 and the Anarchy that Never Came

The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell

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