America’s Rancorous Public Square
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
Milton Ezrati
· 8 min read
Politics
A collection of 620 posts
The Phantom Enemy of the Culture War
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
Joseph Zeller
· 9 min read
A Show of Weakness
China’s military parade was a distraction from the country’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
The Murder of Iryna Zarutska
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
Gaza and the Collapse of Truth-Seeking
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
Gary Geipel
· 8 min read
The Multipolarity Mirage
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
Brian Stewart
· 27 min read
The Language of Independence
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
Samuel Cornell
· 6 min read
Russiagate Redux
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
Cathy Young
· 23 min read
The Heterofatalism Trap
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
Daniel Lehewych
· 14 min read
Skewing the Overton Window
The double standard in the way in which fascism and communism, the extremist ideologies of the Right and Left, are regarded distorts political discourse.
Tomislav Kardum
· 6 min read
The Neo-Romantic Revolt
The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.
Shalom Lappin
· 14 min read
Sarin Is Also Wrong on China
Aaron Sarin’s misreadings of my essay support my thesis and show why we need to think more carefully about China.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
The Deformist Tendency
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Trump and the Necessity of Democratic Struggle
Liberal pluralism remains the best way to secure as much freedom as possible for a nation with 340 million diverse inhabitants, and this point should become clearer as clashing illiberal forces compete to impose their own versions of law and morality on everyone else.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Getting China Right
A reply to D. Marshall.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read