Why Does Ralph Northam Deserve No Mercy? Elite liberalism is embracing modes of thought that I once associated with the political Right: joy in punishment and us-versus-them thinking. Zaid Jilani 2 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
Tyler Cowen's Stubborn Attachments—A Review In a cultural landscape where partisan skirmishes regularly induce something approaching bloodlust on both sides of the political aisle, it’s safe to say that most Americans are roundly rejecting Cowen’s thesis at the moment. Coleman Hughes 21 Nov 2018 · 10 min read
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features. Vincent Harinam / Rob Henderson 6 Nov 2018 · 14 min read
Understanding and Misunderstanding 'Dog-Whistling' It is common to hear from the alt-right that words like ‘diversity’ are dog-whistles for anti-white racism. Blake Smith 16 Jul 2018 · 10 min read
Political Moderates Are Lying Change is wrought by those willing to lead or force others toward it. Which is why we are skeptical that most people truly believe every position they express. Vincent Harinam / Rob Henderson 2 Jul 2018 · 12 min read
The Prison-House of Political Language Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it." Neema Parvini 4 Jun 2018 · 11 min read
The Munk Debate and the Perils of Tribalism Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group Uri Harris 28 May 2018 · 6 min read
Can Liberalism Survive? Marxian critique of liberalism is powerful and penetrating. It splits liberalism into two parts—an intellectual part and a social part—and shows a conflict. Uri Harris 15 May 2018 · 13 min read
Direct Democracy and Its Discontents What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace. Oliver Conolly 27 Dec 2017 · 12 min read
Political Animals: The Limits of Labels and Why We Must Overcome Them It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it. Theo Zenou 2 Mar 2017 · 9 min read
The New Trump-ian Order What I have outlined above are valid critiques of Trump’s policies which need to be vigorously pursued through constitutional channels and via Senatorial and Congressional opposition. Sumantra Maitra 22 Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Pundits are Blind to the Grassroots of Political Change The fit about Farage resigning should in a circular kind of way remind us why the Brexit vote was so important symbolically. Gearóid Murphy 5 Jan 2017 · 3 min read
How Sexual Dominance Influences Politics The link between sex and dominance has a deep evolutionary history. The perennial battles between males over reproductive access to females fill the annals of natural history. Gregory Gorelik 21 Jul 2016 · 11 min read
