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Younger women are the most left wing in their voting habits and older women the most right wing when we compared voters by age and gender.
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
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.
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.
Whenever a political movement ceases to see people as individuals, and rather sees them as symbols of a class, violence usually follows.
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
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.