Manufacturing Dissent
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.
George Case
· 9 min read
Politics
A collection of 566 posts
The New Right’s Political Insurgency
Liberals have been slow to understand the frustrations fuelling the rise of the New Right.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
A Royal Grift
In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects.
Julia Friedman, David Hawkes
· 8 min read
The Cost of Dissent
Uninformed disagreement inhibits or destroys the very innovation and progress that diversity of opinion is meant to bring about.
Robert C. Thornett
· 9 min read
World War Z
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
A Party in Turmoil
Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis
Empty claims of caste discrimination in the West have damaging legal, reputational, and social consequences.
Prakash Shah
· 9 min read
Uncomfortable History
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 5 min read
Military-Industrial Complexities
President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood.
George Case
· 7 min read
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
The Sanctification of the Self
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Megan Wildhood
· 8 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
Aaron Hanna
· 25 min read
The Battle of Sainte-Soline
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read