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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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  1. Is “Western Civilization” a Worthwhile Conceptual Framework?

  2. Review: “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality”

  3. An Alternative Take on Cancel Culture

  4. Gad Saad’s “The Parasitic Mind”: A Reasonable Premise Gone Awry

  5. The Crowding out of a Humanities Education

  6. A Better Way to Understand the Intellectual Dark Web

  7. Clarifying My Comments on Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian

  8. On the “Sokal Squared” Trio

  9. The Places Where Patrick Deneen and the Left Can Agree

  10. Nathan J. Robinson’s Curious Critique

  11. Are Conservatives “Virtue Signalling” Too?

  12. Liberty and the Left

  13. Has Dave Rubin Found His Intellectual Stride?

  14. Given Tara Reade’s Allegation, the Left Should Reconsider Support for Biden

  15. The Time Has Come for the Left to Sink the Democratic Party

  16. Michael Brooks’ New Book Hits the Mark

  17. When We Imbue the Stock Market with Religious Properties

  18. The Critics of “Social Justice,” from Jonah Goldberg to Jordan Peterson

  19. The Biggest Issue with Richard Dawkins’ Tweet

  20. Actually, Howard Schultz, Unions May Just Be the Answer

  21. From Ayn Rand to Amartya Sen: Using the Concept of “Rights”

  22. Fact-Checking the Tweet that Got Andy Ngo Banned from Twitter

  23. Why the Left Should Take Hayek Seriously, Too

  24. Getting to the Bottom of Ben Shapiro’s Popularity

  25. Slavoj Žižek, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the Philosophy of Climate Change

  26. Writing in the Tradition of Rawls—to Understand Trump

  27. The Spanish Philosopher Who Best Understood Populism

  28. Jordan Peterson, Noam Chomsky, and What We Mean by “Left” and “Right”

  29. Slavoj Žižek and the Quillette Hoax

  30. Where Hayek and Marx Part Ways

  31. Slavoj Žižek, Music, and the End of Capitalism

  32. Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot and Public Utilities

  33. When We Debate “Biological Differences”

  34. Jordan Peterson’s Thinkspot Probably Isn’t about “Free Speech”

  35. Where Conservatives Go From Here

  36. Nationalism: No Longer a Dirty Word, But Complicated as Ever

  37. Jordan Peterson and Equality

  38. “Democracy” and the Language of the Founders

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