Politics Are Not the Sum of a Person
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.
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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.
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
What began as a drive toward liberation thus becomes tyranny. What was normal becomes antisocial; what was malign becomes laudatory.
Hillary Clinton was evidently a centrist all along, prizing vague pragmatism, hawkish foreign policy and entrenched norms instead of a unique political vision.
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
The poor could never rise to the top of Roman politics; the common people could never seize the political initiative; and it was axiomatic that the richer an individual citizen was, the more political weight he should have.
It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute.