Hillary Clinton was evidently a centrist all along, prizing vague pragmatism, hawkish foreign policy and entrenched norms instead of a unique political vision.
As a result, Bitcoin is starting to look like a credible investment in any respectable financial portfolio.
Drugs are able to save lives and ruin them; enhance your mind and numb it; heal your body and destroy it.
“Character is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.” And what better marker of character is there than a smile?
At the height of the Cold War, Western Marxists foresaw that the opportunity for an armed socialist revolution was bleak.
By the end of the twentieth century, liberal democracy seemed not only triumphant but, to some, inevitable.
Education The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country Chris Bodenner, The Atlantic ‘As difficult as it is, it’s important we discuss the part played by genes in cognitive ability’ Dr Kathryn Asbury, Tes Too Many Colleges Flunk Trump 101 Frank Bruni, The New York Times
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
Rene Girard’s writing on mimesis raises several interesting questions about the current moment.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
The essay’s author and summit panelist, Toby Young, says he was blindsided at the sudden retraction two days after its publication.
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
If our common goal is to encourage reciprocal respect for other individuals, in spite of average differences in group proclivities.
In a world where blank-slatism, anti-vaccine rhetoric, myths about the effects of parenting, and climate change denial persist and even thrive.
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?