A collection of 21 posts
The claim that “all politics is identity politics,” is not coherent. On one reading, it says something that’s true but irrelevant. And on another reading, it says something that’s false, but would be highly relevant if true.
The day is fast approaching when mainstream white society will react to accusations of racism with yawns and shrugs. What will identitarians do then?
For only then can reason ensure that the moral and social bonds of universal human brotherhood are sustained.
Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats.
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism.