A collection of 42 posts
The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account.
Constructive relationships with dictatorships will be key to protecting US interests without direct military involvements.
As the US was convulsed by the Floyd protests and violence in 2020, the Chinese foreign minister had the gall to denounce the “systemic and persistent existence” of repression of “people of color.”
America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.
Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate.
Social democracy was a product of the inequities of the industrial era and the consequent solidarity that flourished among working people. This often resulted in greater justice for racial minorities.
Yoram Hazony, author of The Virtue of Nationalism, talks about the why liberal institutions like the New York Times have proved so vulnerable to capture by the hard Left. He wrote about this recently for Quillette.
In every political system, one hopes that the cream rises, that the rulers or governors will be the best and the brightest.
Books like 10% Less Democracy help us consider what republican solutions might look like today.
If the Times is implicated in the declining health of smaller news organizations, then it’s not serving the values of democracy as well as it righteously claims.
One of the weird subplots of this Democratic leadership contest has been the steady output of long, puffed out New York Times think pieces that came off as thinly veiled hit jobs on disfavoured candidates.
Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world.
A compulsory voting law—practiced in a number of democracies around the world, including Australia and Belgium—makes voting a civic requirement for all citizens.
The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.