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Stop Calling Everything Antifa

They were wearing masks before mask wearing was necessary. They have dressed in black, sometimes carrying sticks, waved flags with guns on them, smashed windows at Starbucks and pelted police…

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Why Joe Rogan Should Host the Presidential Debates

The first presidential debate of the 2020 US election cycle took place on 29 September. For over ninety minutes, President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden traded barbs…

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America’s Racial Reckoning: A Post-Mortem

Even before the cultural upheavals following the death of George Floyd, race in America was among our most polarizing issues. According to a 2019 analysis by Pew Research, political partisanship…

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Beyond Postmodern: The Neoliberal Roots of Woke Cancel Culture

Anumber of writers on the left and center-left have recently expressed alarm at cancel culture. In some respects, their concerns match those of conservatives who’ve railed against campus deplatforming, compelled…

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Liberalism and the Threats It Faces

Liberal democracy is under threat. Over the last decade, a democratic recession has swept across the world, as once liberal democracies like Turkey, Poland, Hungary, India and the Philippines flirt…

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Karl Marx on Value

Many conservative pundits love to attack Karl Marx without really engaging his work in any depth. This is unfortunate since Marx deserves high calibre critics—and once received telling critiques by…

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“The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?” by Michael J. Sandel

In his 1931 Epic of America, James Truslow Adams describes “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity…

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Charlie Hebdo and the Hypocrisy of the Fight against Islamophobia

On Friday, a Pakistani man attacked the former offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, injuring two journalists from an unrelated TV channel with a meat cleaver. The attacker claimed that…

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How Cousin Marriage and Polygyny Impair Modernisation

Cousin marriage is increasingly being legalized around the world, yet it remains illegal in most US states. But do American legislators have good reasons to outlaw it?

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Self-Defeating Polls and the Uncertainty of Predictions

A Californian plans to vote after work in what she believes to be a close presidential election … The day is rainy and as she approaches the polling place she…

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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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Why More Democracy Is the Last Thing We Need

The masses are respectable hands at fighting, but miserable hands at judging.—G. W. F. Hegel misquoting Goethe Remember Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There…

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The Complex Roots of Black Conservatism

Few fixtures on America’s political and cultural scene tell us more about the perilous state of our racial discourse than the phenomenon of black conservatism. While virtually every other confluence…

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Adjunct Instructors, Class and Power in American Higher Education

Two recent stories involving adjunct instructors have made clear something that most of us in higher education have known for a long time: most Americans, whether college graduates or not,…

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Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Rationalism

Michael Oakeshott belongs alongside F. A. Hayek, Alasdair MacIntyre and, unfortunately, Carl Schmitt as among the most significant intellectual influences on the political right. He was one of the most…

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Can We Have Equality of Opportunity Without Curbing Free Speech?

The quest for equality of opportunity is now pitted against free speech in the marketplace of ideas. Some think that curbs on freedom of speech are acceptable in order to…

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Stop Calling Everything Antifa

Why Joe Rogan Should Host the Presidential Debates

America’s Racial Reckoning: A Post-Mortem

Beyond Postmodern: The Neoliberal Roots of Woke Cancel Culture

Liberalism and the Threats It Faces

Karl Marx on Value

“The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?” by Michael J. Sandel

Charlie Hebdo and the Hypocrisy of the Fight against Islamophobia

How Cousin Marriage and Polygyny Impair Modernisation

Self-Defeating Polls and the Uncertainty of Predictions

Secularism and American Pluralism

Why More Democracy Is the Last Thing We Need

The Complex Roots of Black Conservatism

Adjunct Instructors, Class and Power in American Higher Education

Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Rationalism

Can We Have Equality of Opportunity Without Curbing Free Speech?

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