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
Politics
A collection of 737 posts
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
At 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
The 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
Mobs on the Menu — Restauranteurs and the Culture War
The incident at The Griffin presents a case study in how relatively small groups of activists can now leverage their power on social media.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
Understanding and Misunderstanding Dog Whistling
It is common to hear from the alt-right that words like ‘diversity’ are dog-whistles for anti-white racism.
Blake Smith
· 10 min read
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.
Ryan Fazio
· 9 min read