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In 2010, Ken Minogue penned his last full-length book The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life. As
Social Democracy Has a Drug Problem
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Drawing primarily on Karl Popper, Oliver Traldi argues that hot take culture diminishes our desire or ability to quietly reflect
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It has been almost eight months since Donald Trump took office. If the rest of his term looks like these
Liberalism and Social Action: The Relevance of John Dewey
“The only sin,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1841, “is limitation.” It was in this spirit (and under this influence)
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Here’s something I’m ashamed of: Sometimes when I see a movie or read a novel and I’m
In Praise of Chains: How Public Choice Helps Us Understand and Fight Racism
In American politics, it is sometimes claimed that democratic majorities must never be “in chains,” as the historian Nancy MacLean