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Venezuela: The Latest Battleground in the Geopolitical War between the US, Russia and China

In January of this year, at a distance of less than 2,800 miles from the United States, several Tupolev TU-160—Russian strategic bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons—remained in Venezuela to…

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What Can Latin America Teach Us about Compensated Emancipation?

Are race relations better in Latin America than in the United States? For many decades, Latin American intellectual elites were delighted to think so. Mexican philosopher Jose Vasconcelos believed Latin…

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“Donald Trump Is Like an Old Friend”: Parasocial Relationships and Politics

Walking down a New York City street while still in my teens, I spotted a television film critic I admired walking in the opposite direction. I said, “Hello, Gene.” He…

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The Enlightenment and the Democratic Revolution

This year marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European conquest of the indigenous civilizations of the American mainland. It deserves the same attention as the commemoration of…

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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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Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College

Posted on March 15, 2019
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byHelen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Mike Nayna

What happened just under two years ago at Evergreen State College needs to be seen to be believed. It also needs to be made sense of because, without an understanding…

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10 min

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Listen to Immigrants Who Have Lived Under Socialism

Proud self-described socialist Bernie Sanders is running for president again and has already raised over $10 million for his campaign. Rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also a proud self-described socialist,…

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Should Universities Teach Conspiracy Theories as Knowledge?

Should there be university departments and courses, and should there be researchers and academic journals, devoted to conspiracy theories? I don’t mean this in the way you might immediately think.…

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Stephen Harper’s Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption. Book Review.

The emergence of right wing populism—which I call postmodern conservatism—as a global political force has provoked a flurry of explanatory books (including two forthcoming by yours truly). These have ranged…

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Politics

International Women’s Day, and Its Discontents

Womanhood has been weaponized. Some will argue that feminism has always been aggressive and short-sighted, but I disagree. In 1914, the concerns at the forefront of the women’s movement included…

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9 min

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The Evolution Of Heterodox Black Thought

The Racial Impasse Over the past few years, the conversation around race in America has hit a brick wall. While racial disparities have persisted between black Americans and other groups,…

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Are We All Populists? Diversity’s Challenge to Our Comfort-Loving Selves

Dismissing populism as the work of xenophobes, racists, nationalists or simply those who can’t handle diversity is too easy. Anti-immigrant populism in both Europe and the US involves concerns over…

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Virtue Signal or Piety Display? The Search for Cognitive Identity and the Attack on Social Bargaining

The accusation of virtue signaling has become a standard rhetorical device in recent years. There are at least three major problems with this. First, there is not a lot of…

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5 min

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You Are Big Brother

Unfortunately our weakness is such that we are much more ready to believe and speak evil of others than good … [Y]ou should not believe any chance thing that is…

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6 min

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Population Decline and the Future of Faith

Most professional researchers know better than to try to predict the future with any level of specificity. Countless theorists have already come and gone, offering astoundingly inaccurate predictions—and the more…

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Universal Basic Income: Some Negative Findings from the Finnish Experiment

A few days ago, the preliminary report on The Basic Income Experiment 2017–2018 in Finland was published. The report is freely available online and, given its brevity, well worth a…

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Universal Basic Income: A Universally Bad Idea

We have now entered the age of uncertainty. Welcome to the gig economy, where government shutdowns, unparalleled political instability, terrorism, stock market instability, Brexit and climate change raise more questions than answers. Uncertainty,…

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Reclaiming Islam From the Islamists is the First Step in Combatting Anti-Muslim Extremism

Venezuela: The Latest Battleground in the Geopolitical War between the US, Russia and China

What Can Latin America Teach Us about Compensated Emancipation?

“Donald Trump Is Like an Old Friend”: Parasocial Relationships and Politics

The Enlightenment and the Democratic Revolution

Listen to Immigrants Who Have Lived Under Socialism

Stephen Harper’s Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption. Book Review.

International Women’s Day, and Its Discontents

The Evolution Of Heterodox Black Thought

You Are Big Brother

Population Decline and the Future of Faith

Universal Basic Income: A Universally Bad Idea

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