Secularism and American Pluralism
In this 2018 article, Shadi Hamid discusses the importance of a “modest” American pluralism that can accommodate the fact that “there isn’t a common good to be found; that, because…
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Matt Johnson
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Matt Johnson has written for Quillette, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes, Editor & Publisher, Splice Today, the Kansas City Star, and many other outlets. He was formerly the opinion page editor at the Topeka Capital-Journal.
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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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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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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Is Social Justice Really a Religion?
As traditional religious belief wanes, a new faith has rushed in to fill the spiritual vacuum. Its adherents are just as dogmatic as the most devout fundamentalists and its strictures…
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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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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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