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
House Hoarders
Our media is obsessed with wealth inequality. From Succession to The White Lotus, with Parasite and Triangle of Sadness taking
The Illiberal's Dilemma
In January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because
A Uniquely American Liberalism: Christopher William England's Land and Liberty
It is often remarked that the Americans and Europeans use the term ‘Liberal’ in quite different contexts—in the US,