Rose, Knife, Policy
The double-speak language of American victimization and violence has never been more clear than in Trump's second term
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Fertile Functioning, the Market, and Economic Growth
Relatively free and open markets have always accompanied liberal societies, and they have been most thoroughly suppressed by some of
A Caring Liberalism
“Care always expresses an action or a disposition, a reaching out to something…what it means to be a citizen
Play, the Antidote to Populism
A common complaint in our era of global populism is that certain politicians are making a mockery of our institutions.
Sermon XXIV
* The following undated sermon was left by Dr. Johnson to be published by the Rev. John Taylor. The Johnson scholar
You Were Right, Dad, About the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
When you’re a kid, authority isn’t the stuff of political theory, it’s a feature of the landscape.
Antidemocratic Candidates and Democracy
“One of the best jokes of democracy [was that] it provided its mortal enemies itself the means through which it
The Illiberalism of Prenatal Selection
The American eugenics movement aimed to improve our national destiny by gatekeeping the gene pool out of which would be
A Nationalism Untethered to History
With a breezy preface that approvingly references recent political developments in America and Britain, Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of
Jacob Levy's Liberalism of Tragedy
Against a liberalism of pre-political foundations and historical destiny, Jacob Levy has been working hard to recover a vision
Did the Enlightenment Give Rise to Racism?
Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the
Tendencies and Contingencies: On Social Constructivism
Recently, Canadian philosopher Joseph Heath wrote an essay on social constructivism in which he tries to clean up some ambiguities
Throwing Shade on the Enlightenment
Slate writer Jamelle Bouie caused quite a kerfuffle by discussing the racist elements within the Enlightenment, first with a series