As a Toronto Mob Brays, David Frum and Steve Bannon Joust over Populism’s Split Soul
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Politics
A collection of 613 posts
On God and Politics: Comparing Žižek and Peterson
Both claim to not believe in some God who literally exists as an independent being. Both believe that a proper conception of God engenders support for the individual and personal freedom.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Inside the US Government Agency where Identity Politics Was Born
But while observers have correctly focused on the lessons that may be inferred about high academic culture in the United States, it should be noted that the drifts of the liberal arts into postmodern gibberish has not been an isolated phenomenon.
Michael Gonzalez
· 9 min read
Individuals and Symbols
Whenever a political movement ceases to see people as individuals, and rather sees them as symbols of a class, violence usually follows.
Neema Parvini
· 7 min read
From Party of Ideas to Party of Dittoheads
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
Max Boot
· 10 min read
Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem
Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful
Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie
· 8 min read
Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings
One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
Resolving the Venezuela Crisis: Is There a Case for Outside Military Intervention?
Venezuelans have been voting with their feet to escape the ruin the regime has inflicted on them.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
Effective vs. Pathological Altruism
What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?
Jonathan Anomaly
· 5 min read
Amidst the YouTube Junkies of MythCon, I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Nationalism and Liberal Empire
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
'Anti-Imperialism' and Apologetics for Murder
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.
Ben Sixsmith
· 11 min read
A Better Theory of the Human Soul
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse.
Francis Fukuyama
· 11 min read
Sweden's General Election Turmoil
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
Why Politics Needs the Futuristic Perspective
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)?
Peter Clarke
· 5 min read