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Néstor de Buen
Néstor de Buen holds an M.A. in social sciences from The University of Chicago. He has previously written at Quillette.
Biographical details as published on October 7, 2021.
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Is “Western Civilization” a Worthwhile Conceptual Framework?
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Review: “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality”
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An Alternative Take on Cancel Culture
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Gad Saad’s “The Parasitic Mind”: A Reasonable Premise Gone Awry
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The Crowding out of a Humanities Education
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A Better Way to Understand the Intellectual Dark Web
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Clarifying My Comments on Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian
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On the “Sokal Squared” Trio
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The Places Where Patrick Deneen and the Left Can Agree
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Nathan J. Robinson’s Curious Critique
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Are Conservatives “Virtue Signalling” Too?
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Liberty and the Left
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Has Dave Rubin Found His Intellectual Stride?
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Given Tara Reade’s Allegation, the Left Should Reconsider Support for Biden
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The Time Has Come for the Left to Sink the Democratic Party
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Michael Brooks’ New Book Hits the Mark
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When We Imbue the Stock Market with Religious Properties
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The Critics of “Social Justice,” from Jonah Goldberg to Jordan Peterson
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The Biggest Issue with Richard Dawkins’ Tweet
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Actually, Howard Schultz, Unions May Just Be the Answer
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From Ayn Rand to Amartya Sen: Using the Concept of “Rights”
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Fact-Checking the Tweet that Got Andy Ngo Banned from Twitter
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Why the Left Should Take Hayek Seriously, Too
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Getting to the Bottom of Ben Shapiro’s Popularity
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Slavoj Žižek, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Philosophy of Climate Change
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Writing in the Tradition of Rawls—to Understand Trump
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The Spanish Philosopher Who Best Understood Populism
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Jordan Peterson, Noam Chomsky, and What We Mean by “Left” and “Right”
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Slavoj Žižek and the Quillette Hoax
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Where Hayek and Marx Part Ways
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Slavoj Žižek, Music, and the End of Capitalism
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Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot and Public Utilities
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When We Debate “Biological Differences”
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Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot Probably Isn’t about “Free Speech”
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Where Conservatives Go From Here
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Nationalism: No Longer a Dirty Word, But Complicated as Ever
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Jordan Peterson and Equality
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“Democracy” and the Language of the Founders