Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address
This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.
Liberalism
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Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony
Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.
The Contradiction That Broke the Modern Right
The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.
PODCAST 105: Yoram Hazony on the Challenge of Marxism
Listen onSpotify 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.
The Challenge of Marxism
For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. But they were wrong.
I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak
What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.
COVID-19 and Liberalism
If liberal strategies end up providing weaker results than illiberal ones, liberals might want to revise not only their COVID-19 policy, but also some of their broader assumptions about human nature.
The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission
For Fromm, Horkheimer, and Adorno, this project could only end in a desire for mass death. This is because, in a nihilistic sense, death is the ultimate form of order, stripped of all the anxieties and challenges which come with life.
François Furet: A Man For Our Season
Furet feared that there now appeared to be a simultaneous deadening of politics as the apparently unchallengeable hegemony of quasi-liberal democracy grew, and a dangerous backlash against the system.
The Twilight of Liberalism?
The rise of populism, of Trump, of opiate epidemics, of bitter polarization, and of yawning economic inequality have tempered the triumphalism of those who once celebrated the inevitable victory of markets and democracy.
Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries
A standing citizens’ assembly would reveal the people’s considered opinion as opposed to their unconsidered opinion measured by endless opinion polls.
It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals
Harassment and the advocacy of violence are serious issues, and there is nothing morally objectionable about social media companies.