Power Over Principles: the Dual Dangers of Trumpism and Anti-Racism
The Center - Donald Trump rode the politics of power and emotion to the White House. If his opponents continue to respond in kind, he might have killed the politics of principle in the process. 9/24/2020
The Center - Donald Trump rode the politics of power and emotion to the White House. If his opponents continue to respond in kind, he might have killed the politics of principle in the process. 9/24/2020A Better Way to Understand the Intellectual Dark Web
The Left - “In a different world where the culture war never happened, I might have seen myself as their ally in some areas.” 9/23/2020
The Left - “In a different world where the culture war never happened, I might have seen myself as their ally in some areas.” 9/23/2020George Orwell: from Hell to Salvation
The Center - “Leaving behind a bucolic past, the engine of modernity has nature on the run as it speeds towards an uncertain future.” 9/22/2020
The Center - “Leaving behind a bucolic past, the engine of modernity has nature on the run as it speeds towards an uncertain future.” 9/22/2020Science: Not Everyone’s Cup of Tea
The Center - “It bears to repeat, however, that our genes do not directly decide the actions we take in life—as fatalism would like one to believe. They are not the means to our destiny but, rather, are the keys to our hypothetical reality.” 9/21/2020
The Center - “It bears to repeat, however, that our genes do not directly decide the actions we take in life—as fatalism would like one to believe. They are not the means to our destiny but, rather, are the keys to our hypothetical reality.” 9/21/2020Do Americans Vote Too Much?
The Center - The United States does not have low voter turnout; Americans actually are asked to vote too much, and this hurts our democracy. 9/18/2020
The Center - The United States does not have low voter turnout; Americans actually are asked to vote too much, and this hurts our democracy. 9/18/2020Identity Politics and the Death of Moral Imagination
The Right - “The problem—as has been said so many times before—is that identity politics takes a kernel of truth about embodied human experience and pushes it to its destructive conclusion.” 9/17/2020
The Right - “The problem—as has been said so many times before—is that identity politics takes a kernel of truth about embodied human experience and pushes it to its destructive conclusion.” 9/17/2020Preview: “A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights”
The Left - “While we may be cursed to live in interesting times, this presents an opportunity to rethink some of our basic assumptions about the democratic politics of liberal states…” 9/15/2020
The Left - “While we may be cursed to live in interesting times, this presents an opportunity to rethink some of our basic assumptions about the democratic politics of liberal states…” 9/15/2020The Case for Civic Nationalism
The Center - “If carefully constructed, civic nationalism in the United States can take both conservative and progressive forms.” 9/10/2020
The Center - “If carefully constructed, civic nationalism in the United States can take both conservative and progressive forms.” 9/10/2020Pharmakon IV: Secret Family Recipe
The Left - “Due to the repetitive observations made by most in their daily routines in a country with little socioeconomic mixing, there is poor visibility into how the lives of those in other classes transpire.” 9/4/2020
The Left - “Due to the repetitive observations made by most in their daily routines in a country with little socioeconomic mixing, there is poor visibility into how the lives of those in other classes transpire.” 9/4/2020The Problems with Cultural Christianity
The Left - “In this respect, it is not a defense of Christianity but its final undoing: the subordination of eternal God to the human, all too human need for reactionary political order and tribalistic identity.” 9/3/2020
The Left - “In this respect, it is not a defense of Christianity but its final undoing: the subordination of eternal God to the human, all too human need for reactionary political order and tribalistic identity.” 9/3/2020The Ideological Takeover of British Psychotherapy 
The Center - “The problem with this conception is that access to truth or objectivity becomes something not open to universal access but, instead, becomes something distributed on the basis of social position.” 9/2/2020
The Center - “The problem with this conception is that access to truth or objectivity becomes something not open to universal access but, instead, becomes something distributed on the basis of social position.” 9/2/2020Why Europe Is Weak on Iran
The Right - “It can be argued that the European failure to stand with the United States in maintaining sanctions on the Islamic regime is a symptom of their prolonged appeasement policy, which is masqueraded as diplomatic engagement.” 8/31/2020
The Right - “It can be argued that the European failure to stand with the United States in maintaining sanctions on the Islamic regime is a symptom of their prolonged appeasement policy, which is masqueraded as diplomatic engagement.” 8/31/2020Review: Roger Scruton’s “On Human Nature”
The Left - “The result is a thoughtful and nuanced book that testifies to both his theoretical and exegetical talents, solidifying Scruton’s legacy as the most talented conservative writer of his generation.” 8/27/2020
The Left - “The result is a thoughtful and nuanced book that testifies to both his theoretical and exegetical talents, solidifying Scruton’s legacy as the most talented conservative writer of his generation.” 8/27/2020Looking Beyond Easy Explanations for Divorce
The Left - “Maybe there is something in our environment that makes staying together so hard.” 8/26/2020
The Left - “Maybe there is something in our environment that makes staying together so hard.” 8/26/2020Kayleigh McEnany: a Tough Act to Follow
The Right - “However, after the departure of three spokespeople before her, it seems that President Trump has found his keeper—and the media their match—in a 32-year-old Harvard Law School graduate: Kayleigh McEnany.” 8/22/2020
The Right - “However, after the departure of three spokespeople before her, it seems that President Trump has found his keeper—and the media their match—in a 32-year-old Harvard Law School graduate: Kayleigh McEnany.” 8/22/2020Clarifying My Comments on Lindsay, Pluckrose, and Boghossian
The Left - “The picture of science that they defend, however, is what merits the most attention.“ 8/21/2020
The Left - “The picture of science that they defend, however, is what merits the most attention.“ 8/21/2020