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Orwell and Socialism

Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.

Michael C. Anderson 21 Apr 2023 · 7 min read

On Conservative Socialism

Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.

Seamus Flaherty 27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read

Smearing an Entire Protest Movement as Fascistic Will Come Back to Haunt My Fellow Leftists

My career as a political essayist began 13 years ago. I had been asked by a left-wing Canadian website to expand on my views about a then-ongoing constitutional crisis—and explain why public opinion had turned so sharply in favour of then-prime minister Stephen Harper, even among supporters of parties

Stuart Parker 2 Feb 2022 · 7 min read

A Late Obituary for a Country: Yugoslavia (1918–1991)

Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.

Maria Vivod 13 Dec 2021 · 12 min read

There's (a Lot) More to George Orwell than Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwell represents one of those strange cases where a writer’s reputation predominantly rests, if not on his worst, then certainly his least typical book.

Herman Goodden 27 Aug 2021 · 10 min read

Understanding the Return of Socialism

Gen Z’s simultaneous distrust of government and gravitation towards social democracy is therefore not paradoxical, it is causal—the embrace of socialist-lite policies is a consequence of distrust of the prevailing liberal establishment.

Andrew Sansone 28 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again

Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.

Ewan Morrison 31 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Socialism's Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different

This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program.

Kristian Niemietz 30 Mar 2019 · 7 min read

We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars

Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.

Christopher Sabaitis 23 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity

This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.

Joe Hefferon 20 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy

The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.

Galen Watts 17 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

A Tale of Two Cities: The Modern Soothsayers

How much longer people are going to listen to these modern soothsayers. At this point, they are naked lobbyists for entrenched special interests.

Neema Parvini 22 Dec 2018 · 5 min read

Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?

Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.

Jeffrey Tayler 1 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

The Man Who Predicted the Venezuelan Catastrophe in 1893

History has revealed Richter’s political and economic insights about the inevitable fate of socialist experiments to be a warning of eerie prescience.

Hugo Newman 26 Aug 2018 · 18 min read

Democratic Socialism is a Scam

The failure of pundits to discern between democratic socialism and Nordic social democracy is not for a lack of transparency on the part of DSA.

Giancarlo Sopo 6 Aug 2018 · 5 min read