The Difference Between Governing and Campaigning
The ideas primary is not about catchy slopulist slogans or incoherent wish-lists from every group under the sun, but must return a genuine program for successful governance.
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Go Woke, Go Broke?
Conservatives recently had an apoplectic fit over Bud Light’s product placement making some sort of partnership with transgender TikTok
Understanding Liberalism in Moral Terms: Michael Walzer's "The Struggle for Decent Politics"
For friends of liberalism, to be liberal-minded means possessing a broad curiosity about all things unbridled by prejudice or contempt.
YIMBYism for Colleges
Since 1980, the average price of tuition has risen over 1000%, far outpacing the rate of inflation. This presents a
Lessons for a New Cold War
I am a child of the 90s. America had emerged from the long twilight struggle of the Cold War victorious,
Liberals of the Anthropocene
Liberals have an environmental problem. Many, if not most, liberals understand that climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions and
Let's Wreck Some Norms and Take the Court Down a Peg
It may be difficult to believe today, but Congress was once a force to be reckoned with. The pinnacle of
Revisiting Tony Smith's "Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism"
Recent decades have been kind to liberal and Marxist attempts at dialogue. But old animosities are like Henry Kissinger; they
The Number of Geopolitical “Poles” is Irrelevant Compared to their Disposition
The discourse about the structure of the world political order has come to turn increasingly around the question of ‘poles’
Rest in Peace, Eden Knight
Editor’s Note: Eden Knight (2000–2023) was a Saudi Arabian trans woman studying computer science in the United States.
Convictions Freely Chosen: Galen Watts' The Spiritual Turn
But victorious capitalism, since it rests on mechanical foundations, needs its support no longer. The rosy blush of its laughing
The New Redeemers
Ever since Donald Trump first came down that golden escalator, everyone from laymen to various pundits and historians have debated
The Two Origin Stories of Liberalism
This essay is based on the invited comments delivered on March 10, 2023, celebrating the Lee Kong Chian Chair Professorship