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Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful
One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved.
Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.
What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?
This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement.
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
The anti-imperialist Left’s mistake has not always been its opposition to Western policies, it has been its reflexive idealisation of the West’s opponents.
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse.
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
What if all the Trump voters weren’t scared of immigrants taking their jobs, but instead were scared of robots taking their jobs (a much more likely scenario)?
Politics is important, but it is only a means to an end. Human flourishing, or the good life, is the proper end of social life.
Everyone would be equal in every way and we would all ride our unicorns to the end of the rainbow. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world we live in this one.
Owens assured me these pages were from a “dummy test site,” not the real Social Autopsy database which was not online yet.
When black people are asked what they think about myriad race-related issues, their answers often deviate from liberal orthodoxy.
A Cognitive Theory of Politics can improve our understanding of contemporary political movements, such as the protests happening on college campuses.