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Bureaucrats: The New Aristocracy

Speculations over the possible existence of a bureaucratic deep state are the latest manifestation of a very old way of looking at power politics, using a framework that divides political…

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Politics

The Ten Books Every Leftist Should Know: A Reply to Dennis Prager

In a 4 January column for the Daily Wire, Dennis Prager, talk show host and founder of the partisan YouTube channel Prager U, opines that it is often very difficult…

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5 min

Politics

Why Civil Partnerships are Sacred to Progressives

In October 2014, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan entered Chelsea Town Hall in London, to form a civil partnership. But, as a mixed-sex couple, they were refused. Although the Marriage…

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5 min

Politics

India’s Descent into Authoritarianism

Democratic breakdown doesn’t need a blueprint. It can be the result of a sequence of unanticipated events—an escalating tit-for-tat between a demagogic, norm-breaking leader and a threatened political establishment. The…

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5 min

Politics

In Defence of Ideology

The term ideological is often slung about as if it were an insult. It typically implies that a person is set in her ways, or dogmatic. It also implies that…

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14 min

In Praise of Proportionality: How the Courts Will Save Us From the Wackiest of the Woke

Human rights have, for many decades now, been a central concept in cultures that embrace the idea of the sovereign individual. When the individual is understood as ensconced within a…

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5 min

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Is France Charlie?

France has been a crucible of radical philosophy since the eighteenth century, and was the pre-eminent centre for the arts in the nineteenth and twentieth. It was France to which…

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5 min

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Moralism, Public and Private

We are all moralists at heart. We constantly make judgments about our family, friends and even strangers. We may profess that such judgments are merely matters of taste—but there is…

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14 min

A Peculiar Phenomenon: Review of “The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism” by Matthew McManus

Most of us were utterly unprepared for those astonishing events of 2016: Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency. Why…

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12 min

Politics

The Left is Having an Identity Crisis

The Left is in crisis. We no longer present a cohesive movement, and we no longer form coherent political parties. We are a fractured and ill-defined mess, our goals are…

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6 min

Politics

Three Bipartisan Policies that Reduce Polarization

The increasing rhetoric about polarization in US politics is misleading at best and prevents Americans finding common cause in unexpected places. During both the current and previous presidential primaries, the…

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Threats to Free Speech at University, and How to Deal with Them—Part 2

Part 1 of this essay outlined six major threats to free speech at university, focusing on institutions in the UK and US: first, speech codes, speech guidelines and free speech…

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Politics

Bureaucrats: The New Aristocracy

The Ten Books Every Leftist Should Know: A Reply to Dennis Prager

Why Civil Partnerships are Sacred to Progressives

India’s Descent into Authoritarianism

In Defence of Ideology

In Praise of Proportionality: How the Courts Will Save Us From the Wackiest of the Woke

Is France Charlie?

Moralism, Public and Private

A Peculiar Phenomenon: Review of “The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism” by Matthew McManus

The Left is Having an Identity Crisis

Three Bipartisan Policies that Reduce Polarization

Threats to Free Speech at University, and How to Deal with Them—Part 2

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