Areo - Liberal Values

I am rarely disappointed when reading Areo essays, so Gerfried Ambrosch’s recently published “Making Sense of Immigration: Why Multiculturalism Is at Odds with Integration,” left me feeling not only frustrated,…

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Politics

Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance and the Liberal Case for Equality

The political left—and egalitarian projects more generally—are widely associated with identity politics and what is sometime caricatured as the philosophy of postmodern neo-Marxism. Pundits and commentators from all parts…

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11 min

Politics

What the Left and Right Can Learn From Each Other

It’s no secret that we’re living through a period of widening political polarization. Social media and social fragmentation have secluded us in our own political bubbles, where we rage against…

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14 min

Review

What The Coddling of the American Mind Fails To Spell Out. Book Review.

Posted on October 26, 2018October 26, 2018
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byStephen Messenger

I agree with Steven Pinker that The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure is “among the most important…

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15 min

Politics

The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

In his 1981 book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, Peter Singer argues that our sense of moral responsibility has steadily grown to encompass larger and larger groups…

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Liberal Values

Why Multiculturalism Is Not at Odds with Integration: A Response to Ambrosch

Rawls’ Veil of Ignorance and the Liberal Case for Equality

What the Left and Right Can Learn From Each Other

What The Coddling of the American Mind Fails To Spell Out. Book Review.

The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism

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