In Defense of Red Tape
Procurement in government is difficult, but rules and regulations make it better.
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Restaurant Dining in Paris Post-COVID
This March, with more than 4,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in France, the French Prime Minister announced a
The Cynical Theorists Behind Cynical Theories
A specter is haunting the West—the specter of Social Justice. All the powers of old civil society have entered
The Mass Politics of Hating the Left
Liberal centrists are fond of horseshoe theory—the idea that the political spectrum is curved, so that if you go
The Fruit of the World's Trial and Error: Importing COVID-19 Containment Tactics
The good news is that some countries are winning the war with COVID-19; fruit from the vast trial and
Conservative Cancel Culture After 9/11
“Probably the only thing that genuinely was cancelled in the last 20 years was … The Dixie Chicks,” the longtime progressive
A Compromised Institution: Alexander Keyssar's Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
At the close of the 20th century, Alexander Keyssar found himself writing what would become the preeminent book on the
The Capitol Crawl and the Long Struggle for Disability Rights
The ways in which disabled people have suffered from the stigma surrounding disability vary “from the freak shows of the
Censorship, Social Sanctions, and Access to Audiences
Over the last few weeks, issues ostensibly about freedom of speech once again made headlines. Unfortunately, these debates seem plagued
Lessons for the Left: Achieving Our Country Revisited
If we look for people who made no mistakes, who were always on the right side, who never apologized for
Culture War Fragility
The criticisms of Robin DiAngelo and her book White Fragility have been intense, even by culture war standards. There are
Guido de Ruggiero and the Crisis of Liberalism
“This crisis has long been concealed by the survival of the outward forms and historical institutions created by freedom, veiling
Subject the Police Equally to the Law
Because liberalism is often seen, particularly on the left, as enjoying ideological hegemony in the modern United States, there is