The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other
And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.
Yascha Mounk
· 16 min read
Politics
A collection of 503 posts
Howard Men
Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Adam Gussow
· 58 min read
Civil Rights and Wrongs
Richard Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete.
Oliver Traldi
· 16 min read
China’s Manufactured Fukushima Panic
The CCP has not missed an opportunity to inflame fears about its Japanese neighbor.
Aaron Sarin
· 10 min read
The Immigration Conundrum
Migration from the developing world to the West will continue until and unless international development can improve the societies people are leaving.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Inescapable Disparities
Thomas Sowell’s new book reminds us that the world has never been a level playing field and we will not be able to engineer one.
Hannah Gal
· 12 min read
Libertarian Limitations
Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas.
Marco den Ouden
· 16 min read
Whistling in the Dark
Apprehensions of dog whistles and code words in political discourse are a desperate rearguard strategy to maintain a moral high ground.
George Case
· 7 min read
When Havel Met Biden
Far from being a project of US imperialism, NATO expansion has been a process driven by small and vulnerable countries.
Oscar Clarke
· 7 min read
The Chinese Exodus
Fears of a CCP sponsored invasion at the Mexican border are misplaced. People are fleeing China because its economy is in dire straits.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
On Political Hatred
On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read
Will Britain Get a New Right Party?
If the Conservative Party slumps to defeat in next year’s election, Britain could see the rise of a populist alternative.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited
Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
Samuel Kronen
· 17 min read
The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 min read
A Voice from the Heart
Legal equality and the politics of disappointment.
Andrew Gleeson
· 14 min read