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Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world.
She believed that Europe should not be a centralizing power that incubated supranational institutions—particularly as this model of centralization was just then in the throes of spectacular failure within the Soviet Union.
No one’s politics is based on deliberative rationality. And no one’s politics is based on science, of course.
The emerging configuration of the new urban politics threatens many of the gains made over the past two decades.
One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.
Veteran Political Pundit Mark Halperin talks to Quillette‘s Jonathan Kay about his new book, How to Beat Trump. He thinks it’s going to be very difficult.
Immigrants from certain backgrounds—particularly Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghanis—were many times more likely to commit violent crimes than other Norwegians
Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t.
The suggestion that we ought to be suspicious of Gates’s work on global health—work that has saved millions of lives—because he made a slightly ambiguous comment about U.S. politics is not only absurd, it is also pernicious.
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.
Under the Canadian political system, party leaders are free to unilaterally block candidates, no matter the views of voters or the rank-and-file.
The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.
If partisanship is shaping our perceptions of reality, then democratic decision-making becomes incredibly difficult.
When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment.