The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots
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A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.
Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.
During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.
Activists and opinion-formers on the Left and Right have been persuaded that living under anything besides the kind of governance they want means they’ve been cheated.
Liberals have been slow to understand the frustrations fuelling the rise of the New Right.
In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects.
Uninformed disagreement inhibits or destroys the very innovation and progress that diversity of opinion is meant to bring about.
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.