Apr 1, 2021
What should we make of John Rawls's landmark work fifty years after its release?
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Discussions & debates on the pressing issues of our current political scene.
Apr 14, 2021
In Rawls' wake, there is a growing realization that there needs to be a truly postmodern approach to our comprehensive thinking.
Apr 7, 2021
Rawls’s teaching has served only to erode the true foundations of political freedom and of conventional, “bourgeois” morality.
Mar 1, 2021
People insist on investing militants—some of them—with romance.
Mar 31, 2021
The Weather Underground remind us what happens when our wariness toward ideologues falters.
Mar 26, 2021
The Weather Underground lacked the power to achieve its goals, but we should be haunted by its crimes, its love of terror, and its nihilism.
Mar 23, 2021
Wokeness turns citizens not so much into sleepwalkers as sleep-rampagers, somnambulists of self-righteousness.
Mar 17, 2021
We ought not forget the darker side of our political heritage.
Mar 10, 2021
The urgent practical questions for statesman and citizen alike are: how much political violence is being committed right now? And who’s committing it?
Feb 1, 2021
Reading Lasch today, one can see his prescience, as well as the ways that American society has unraveled.
Feb 26, 2021
You can’t have a decent politics without a decent culture, and you can’t have culture without cult.
Feb 22, 2021
Lasch put his finger on much of what ails American democracy, but we need something more.
Feb 17, 2021
We should remember that the elites Lasch so despised remain Americans at heart.
Feb 11, 2021
Lasch did not think that 21st century populism could resemble the new right or populist movements of the past.