Antisemitism and Intent
“Antisemitism, like racism…requires intent,” Ben Shapiro declared. Shapiro was defending his decision to hire actor Gina Carano to a
Reading John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty in the Age of "Cancel Culture" and "Fake News"
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Reimagining Public Safety
Public wellbeing is being reimagined before our eyes. In Minneapolis, the city committee has chosen to end its police department.
The Tyranny of Parents
Most parents, and most adults, don’t like to think about parents as tyrants. Usually instead parents are framed as
The Online Quest for Community
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Trade Agreements as Diplomacy
In terms of economic progress, today’s capitalist-based format, which has triumphed in many corners of the globe, is
Gender Confirmation Surgery and the "Cosmetic" Cost
When it comes to gender confirmation surgery, insurance coverage can be a difficult web of hypocrisy to weave through. Transgender
Adam Smith's Radical Tools
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and
If You See Voting, Say Nothing
It’s an article of faith among some anarchists and authoritarians that voting is an irrational action. There’s a
A Conversation About Liberal Democracy
[The following came out of an email conversation between Martin Gurri and Adam Gurri that took place January 16–18
Liberalism Without Principles
“[M]y hunch is that Western social and political thought may have had the last conceptual revolution it needs,” Richard
Resisting Segregation in Cleveland and Across the Country
The Great Migration of African Americans from the Jim Crow South was a monumental event in American history. The character