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Incivility, Anger, New Media and Contemporary Politics

One of the consistent claims that seems to unite everyone across the political spectrum is that current politics is highly partisan and increasingly uncivil. The conservative National Review has published…

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Mandatory National Service Won’t Restore American Unity

Politico Magazine recently launched “How to Fix Politics in America,” a blockbuster interactive feature exploring 99 “out-of-the-box solutions to America’s biggest problems.” The proposed solutions range from the interesting and creative…

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8 min

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Go Back to Where You Came From!

No one is a native of the place we call home.—Mohsin Hamid, National Geographic, August 2019 Without interbreeding due to successive waves of migrants, “Europeans” would not exist.—Paul Salopek, National…

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10 min

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Francis Fukuyama’s “Identity”: A Book Review

Francis Fukuyama is one of those authors who are often invoked and far less frequently read. This has to do, at least in part, with the controversy surrounding his first…

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17 min

Politics

Oligarchy, Immigration and Intersectionality: Contradictions on the Left

In his interview with Joe Rogan, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked where the lobbyists in Washington came from, and what could be done to stop them. Sanders told Rogan…

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7 min

Politics

Conservatives Need to Embrace Universal Healthcare

For the past decade, the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed Obamacare, has been the bogeyman of the Republican Party in the United States. Signed into law in 2010, the bill required…

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6 min

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Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis

Picture this. Students in schools paid for with tax dollars are ordered to stand as a sign of respect for the federal government. If they sit or kneel, they face…

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10 min

Politics

Reason and Myth in Postmodernity

Irrational and mythological thinking have been gaining adherents recently. In his essay “Conservative Rationalism has Failed,” Yoram Hazony insists that an overemphasis on reason has corroded the moral and spiritual…

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8 min

Politics

Scouting Without Faith

I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those…

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13 min

Politics

Education: An Economy of Exclusivity

Readers over the age of fifty probably remember the 1970s as a depressing decade of stagflation, an oil crisis—and disco music. They may recall Studio 54, a New York nightclub…

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9 min

Politics

Who Speaks for Muslims in Colorado?

At this year’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver, John Andrews, former Colorado senator and founder of the Centennial Institute, reignited the discussion of Islamism in Muslim-American communities. Many local publications,…

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5 min

Politics

Teaching Uncertainty: Cultivating a Heterodox Classroom and Life

To quote someone a lot smarter than me, “I know that I know nothing.” This is the Socratic paradox which states that the only thing I’m certain of is my…

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5 min

Politics

From Syria to Venezuela: Mystifying Left-Wing Support of Dictators.

If you’ve worked with left-wing activists, you have probably met many caring and intelligent people who genuinely believe in democratic values. Until it comes to foreign policy, when many leftists…

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11 min

Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power

Karl Marx and Michel Foucault are two of the most cited critical theorists in the world today, simultaneously revered or reviled, depending on who you talk to. Their work has…

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8 min

Politics

LGBT Rights in America: Incremental Progress, Ongoing Problems

To a significant number of Americans, the quest for gay rights is either over or mostly over. On 28 June of this year, for example, the Atlantic ran an article by James…

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Politics

Incivility, Anger, New Media and Contemporary Politics

Mandatory National Service Won’t Restore American Unity

Go Back to Where You Came From!

Francis Fukuyama’s “Identity”: A Book Review

Oligarchy, Immigration and Intersectionality: Contradictions on the Left

Conservatives Need to Embrace Universal Healthcare

Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis

Reason and Myth in Postmodernity

Scouting Without Faith

Education: An Economy of Exclusivity

Who Speaks for Muslims in Colorado?

Teaching Uncertainty: Cultivating a Heterodox Classroom and Life

From Syria to Venezuela: Mystifying Left-Wing Support of Dictators.

Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power

LGBT Rights in America: Incremental Progress, Ongoing Problems

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