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Confronting the Antisemitism on the Left

Traditionally, in the western world, it has been the reactionary, racist right, with its espousal of blood and soil politics, that has wielded the deadly weapons of antisemitism and Judeophobia,…

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8 min

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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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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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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9 min

What The Left Can Learn From Liberalism

Today, liberalism seems under greater threat than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Books with titles like Why Liberalism Failed have received laudations from both the…

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8 min

On Quillette and the Engaged Left

The online magazine Quillette recently found itself at the center of a heated controversy concerning free speech, academic integrity and journalistic ethics. In response to a tweet castigating the magazine…

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10 min

Politics

The Engaged Left: The Emergence of a Political Movement

Over the past few months, I’ve written a number of pieces for outlets like Quillette and this magazine, Areo. While these magazines publish articles on a wide variety of topics—from…

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12 min

Politics

Why Progressives Don’t Have a Foreign Policy (and Why They Need One)

One of the more curious things that happened on the way to Donald Trump’s election in November 2016 was that a number of both mainstream newspaper commentators and left-wing figures…

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7 min

Politics

Sure, The Left Keeps Eating Itself — Who Can We Draft to Bite Back?

The protest faced by Jordan Peterson at Queen’s University was one of the latest in a series of events that continue to stir the tempest in a teapot that embodies…

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Confronting the Antisemitism on the Left

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

Oligarchy, Immigration and Intersectionality: Contradictions on the Left

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

What The Left Can Learn From Liberalism

On Quillette and the Engaged Left

The Engaged Left: The Emergence of a Political Movement

Why Progressives Don’t Have a Foreign Policy (and Why They Need One)

Sure, The Left Keeps Eating Itself — Who Can We Draft to Bite Back?

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