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What Kinds of Liberal Freedoms Should Democratic Socialists Support?

One of the biggest controversies on the contemporary left today concerns the relationship between leftism and liberalism. People often use the word liberalism to refer to a location on the…

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8 min

Something Worth Fighting For: “Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education” by Jonathan Marks

Readers of this magazine are probably familiar with the depressing situation on American campuses: the ideologues, disinvitations, deplatformings, policies detrimental to free speech and free enquiry and so on. It…

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5 min

Politics

Civilisational Guilt and the Paradox of Tolerance

“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance,” writes Karl Popper in his 1945 masterwork, The Open Society and its Enemies. Liberals’ blindness to the implications of this paradox…

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6 min

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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6 min

Cancel Culture and the Alt-Right: Dark Psychological Profiles in Politics

The dark triad is the term used to describe the constellation of three maladaptive and socially undesirable traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. Machiavellian individuals are cold and cynical, often using…

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5 min

Politics

Hobbes, Locke and Mill: In Defence of Tolerance

The traditional liberal call that we should extend tolerance to our opponents has been replaced by a demand for recognition and acceptance that is paradoxically intolerant towards those who do…

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11 min

Politics

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

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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9 min

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.

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

What Kinds of Liberal Freedoms Should Democratic Socialists Support?

Something Worth Fighting For: “Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education” by Jonathan Marks

Civilisational Guilt and the Paradox of Tolerance

Can We Have Equality of Opportunity Without Curbing Free Speech?

Cancel Culture and the Alt-Right: Dark Psychological Profiles in Politics

Hobbes, Locke and Mill: In Defence of Tolerance

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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