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But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats.
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism.