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Dear Americans: Your Politics Don’t Have to Be This Toxic

America’s narrowing two-party system is poisoning the greatest democracy in the world.

Stephan Jensen

6 Jul 2022 · 18 min read

Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan

Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Steven Pinker and Harvey Silverglate

1 Jul 2022 · 14 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 [https://rabble.ca/] to expand on my views about a then-ongoing constitutional crisis [https://rabble.ca/general/do-canadians-actually-prefer-minority-rule/]—and explain why public opinion had turned so sharply in favour of then-prime