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Mad Online; Or, The Enemy of My Enemy

In The Fragile Absolute Slavoj Zizek wrote of the Balkans that they’re “always somewhere else, a little bit more towards the southeast. . . .” Pundits seem part of a parallel…

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7 min

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Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?

Recent interruptions of Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark College (and reactions to Bari Weiss’s New York Times editorial about them), and the Atlantic’s quick hiring and firing of Kevin…

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25 min

Features

The Reality of the Rise of an Intolerant and Radical Left on Campus

The darkest part is not the rise of radicalism, but the passive acquiescence of the vast majority of faculty and students.

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9 min

Politics

A Liberal Who Remembers

Lefty friends keep asking me if — or telling me that — I’m a conservative now. But I’m just a liberal who remembers what they’ve forgotten. I remember what it meant to…

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10 min

Politics

Protagoras on the Google Memo

In a recent piece for Quillette, Bo Winegard talks about what he calls “cosmic egalitarianism,” a thoroughgoing sort of egalitarianism that reacts strongly to arguments that some groups of people…

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7 min

Politics

Understanding the U.S. Political Divide, One Word Cloud at a Time

Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018
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byMichael Carolan

America’s political divide goes by many names – rural-urban, blue-red, metro-non-metro and left-right. We are told it is bad and that it is only getting worse, thanks to phenomena like…

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9 min

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Humanitarianism, Collectivism, and the Model of Impossible Responsibility

One class of claim made by social justice activists and academics goes like this: Because person A benefits from the history of some unjust system, structure, or social construction S,…

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6 min

Politics

The Matthew Sears Cower: Getting it Wrong on Free Speech and Social Justice

Posted on January 17, 2018January 17, 2018
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byOliver Traldi

Last week in the Washington Post Canadian classics professor Matthew A. Sears argued that “‘social justice warriors’ are the true defenders of free speech and open debate.” His argument for…

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18 min

Features

Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump

Posted on January 2, 2018January 17, 2018
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byJames A. Lindsay

This is an argument about how to defeat the lunatic right by criticizing the lunatic left.

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14 min

Politics

Does Channel 4’s Documentary Provide the Truth about Muslim Marriage?

Channel 4’s documentary, The Truth About Muslim Marriage, presented by Dr. Myriam François-Cerrah of the School of Oriental and African Studies, rests on doubtful claims.

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23 min

Politics

The Perils of Independent Thought: Re-Reading George Orwell’s Essays

Posted on October 24, 2017October 25, 2017
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byRobert Darby

George Orwell was first brought to my attention in 7th grade, when our teacher read us excerpts from his fairy story, Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Despite the deadpan ferocity…

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7 min

Politics

The Bleak View of Ta-Nehisi Coates

Posted on October 1, 2017October 1, 2017
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byDan Melo

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s recent article in the Atlantic — “The First White President” is a devastating and image-shattering look at how President Trump is truly the first white President. While I highly…

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13 min

What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know

Posted on September 17, 2017December 31, 2017
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byOliver Traldi

Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”…

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42 min

Features

Thomas Jefferson & His Enemies

Posted on September 7, 2017January 1, 2018
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byRace Hochdorf

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” — Thomas Jefferson, letter to Pierre De Nemours,…

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9 min

Politics

The Rise of a Moral Panic

Posted on August 27, 2017September 8, 2017
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byO.T. Ford

The classic example of a moral panic involves a society losing its mind over witchcraft, as when more than twenty innocent people, mostly women, were hanged or otherwise killed following…

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7 min

Review

The Anatomy of Fascism

Posted on August 27, 2017September 8, 2017
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byRobert Shaw

“It would be so much easier for us,” wrote Umberto Eco in his 1995 essay Eternal Fascism “if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying, ‘I want to reopen Auschwitz,…

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4 min

Politics

A Lifelong Leftist’s Cri De Coeur

Posted on August 19, 2017September 8, 2017
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byIona Italia

“Iona is no leftist,” a Twitter acquaintance recently asserted. It’s left me pensive as to what it means to be on the left (or not) and why so many of…

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Politics

Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, and the Politicization of Science

Mad Online; Or, The Enemy of My Enemy

Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?

The Reality of the Rise of an Intolerant and Radical Left on Campus

A Liberal Who Remembers

Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump

Does Channel 4’s Documentary Provide the Truth about Muslim Marriage?

The Perils of Independent Thought: Re-Reading George Orwell’s Essays

The Bleak View of Ta-Nehisi Coates

What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know

Thomas Jefferson & His Enemies

The Rise of a Moral Panic

The Anatomy of Fascism

A Lifelong Leftist’s Cri De Coeur

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