PODCAST 91: Oxford's Thomas Hale on Measuring the Variation in Government Response to COVID-19
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COVID-19 and the Normalization of Mass Surveillance
A culture war over privacy looms.
Alex Gladstein
· 10 min read
Enough With the Phoney 'Lockdown' Debate
It’s been fuelled, on both sides, by the presumption that government decrees work as a sort of magic wand that will bring our economies (and perhaps the most acute phase of the pandemic) back to life.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App
Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?
Sean Welsh
· 8 min read
Bernie Sanders and the ‘Revolutionary’ Whitewashing of Communist Tyranny
But Sanders’ position is exceptional in that it flies in the face of both mainstream Democrats and Republicans, including even fellow progressive leftist Elizabeth Warren.
Tony Frangie Mawad
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Don't Test, Don't Tell: The Bureaucratic Bungling of COVID-19 Tests
The offenders include rich countries like the United States and Japan, vast countries like Indonesia and India, communist countries like China and Vietnam, theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia, oligarchies like Russia and Nigeria, social democracies like Germany and France.
Ben Hunt
· 8 min read
As Erdoğan Weaponizes Turkey's Migrants, Greece Pays the Price
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tweeted on Sunday. “The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them.”
Nektaria Stamouli
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Is Democracy Compatible with Extreme Inequality?
Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world.
Chang Che
· 8 min read
Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen
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.
Johan Wennström
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Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists
Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.
Kaveh Shahrooz
· 5 min read
Politics and Rationality: On the Uses and Limits of Science
No one’s politics is based on deliberative rationality. And no one’s politics is based on science, of course.
Crispin Sartwell
· 7 min read
PODCAST 67: Toby Young on Boris Johnson's Victory in the UK General Election
Quillette, Toby Young, Jonathan Kay
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Mayors Won't Rule the World
The emerging configuration of the new urban politics threatens many of the gains made over the past two decades.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?
One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
PODCAST 64: Mark Halperin on How to Beat Trump (It Won't be Easy)
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Quillette
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