Why We Should Read Machiavelli
Machiavelli focused his analysis of power not on ideals, but on the feasible. In affairs of state, virtue was a matter of efficacy, not piety.
Jonathan Church
· 8 min read
Politics
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Why Don't Women Vote For Feminist Parties?
It is naïve to imagine that female voters will necessarily support feminist goals, even when they would benefit from them. Feminists have known this for a long time.
Louise Perry
· 11 min read
How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right
Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.
Eric Kaufmann
· 9 min read
Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear
Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.
Michael Shellenberger
· 9 min read
To Stay Sane in an Age of Broken Politics, Admit What You Don't Know
Politics or reality show—the basic structure is the same: A cast of performers is presented to the public, with each seeking to get the most people to like them by the season finale.
James Altucher
· 11 min read
The Iraq War Was Not About Oil
American oil companies didn’t want to topple Saddam Hussein; they wanted to trade with him.
Tal Tyagi
· 11 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Circular Firing Squad Is Destroying the Left's Political Brand: A Case Study from Canada
Some of the sharpest blows delivered against Canadian progressives over the last month have been the result of poisonous civil wars within the progressive community itself.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Europe's New Beggars
An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle
Johan Wennström
· 9 min read
The End of Aspiration
The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life.
Joel Kotkin
· 8 min read
Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again
Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.
Ewan Morrison
· 8 min read
What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?
Rand and her largely philosophical economic views have been consigned to history as an interesting relic of sorts—a compelling, well-articulated fantasy that has no basis in reality.
Cameron Hendy
· 8 min read
The Sudden Unpopularity of Neoliberal Centrists
For every ad a corporation runs encouraging people to vote for a political initiative, it runs a hundred ads presenting a product or service through the lens of a socially progressive narrative.
Uri Harris
· 9 min read
Trump, Partisan Politics and Gay Rights
The fact that the new initiative is being led by a gay man, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, means little to these ideologues. In their narrative, Grenell is either a sellout or a stooge.
Brad Polumbo
· 5 min read
China is Gearing up for a Long Fight
If China is responsible for the attack on the Australian parliament, the intelligence that it has gathered could be very useful in eroding the appeal of democracy worldwide.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read