Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful
One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved.
What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?
Without the possibility of objectivity, there is no science. Has sociology become, then, just political activism? To some extent, yes.
The socialist experiment has been run and the results are in: it is a failure—Revolution => Dictatorship => Horror.
In this charged atmosphere, and with the national press looking on as well, two members of the UM football team—one of them none other than the quarterback and team captain—were charged with sexual intercourse without consent.
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
The three of you have continually stated your leftist political identity in your writing and on your social media accounts. How is your political affiliation relevant to the project?
The second and most impressive section of the book lays out Hazony’s principled arguments for adopting a vision of the world order characterized by an 'order of independent nation states.'
“Rising inequality” has become a catch-all explanation with which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals can wave away the actual concerns of “populists,” with abstract talk about the “underlying economic causes” — few if any of which stand up to scrutiny.
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as “less-evolved” than members of their own party.
As individuals making personal judgments about the truthfulness of Kavanaugh and Ford, we are not held to the same standards as our justice system.
Instead of signaling as loudly as possible one’s membership in a tribe, we need to make a habit of trying to discover the facts that bear on a set of issues, including immigration, and then demand that our elected officials use those facts to craft practical solutions.
Since then, the 'autism' landscape has changed: In the early 1970s, autism had not quite emerged from its Dark Ages.