A Brit’s Friendly Advice to American Conservatives
The Right - “In order to win, the American Right needs to bury dead dogmas, get its head out of abstract Platonic idealism, and look reality in the face.” 5/11/2021
The Right - “In order to win, the American Right needs to bury dead dogmas, get its head out of abstract Platonic idealism, and look reality in the face.” 5/11/2021Time To Get Vaccinated…Against Propaganda
The Center - “To these people, lockdown has been a raging success. To everybody else, it has been an unmitigated disaster.” 5/9/2021
The Center - “To these people, lockdown has been a raging success. To everybody else, it has been an unmitigated disaster.” 5/9/2021Lessons from Labour’s 2021 Election Defeat
The Left - “It is a crushing defeat that signals that Labour’s loss of several of its Northern constituencies under former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in the 2019 general election was not a one-off occurrence that could be fixed with a new leader.” 5/8/2021
The Left - “It is a crushing defeat that signals that Labour’s loss of several of its Northern constituencies under former Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in the 2019 general election was not a one-off occurrence that could be fixed with a new leader.” 5/8/2021George Orwell’s Vision for a Socialist Britain: What Did He Actually Want?
The Center - “But every now and again, it is worth looking at his own vision of an ideal society. Interestingly, this is where this sharp-eyed critic comes across as short-sighted.” 5/7/2021
The Center - “But every now and again, it is worth looking at his own vision of an ideal society. Interestingly, this is where this sharp-eyed critic comes across as short-sighted.” 5/7/2021George W. Bush’s “Out of Many, One”: A Message of Gratitude
The Center - “And at a time when so many, on both the Left and Right, seem intent on tearing everything down, President Bush reminds us how much we have.” 5/3/2021
The Center - “And at a time when so many, on both the Left and Right, seem intent on tearing everything down, President Bush reminds us how much we have.” 5/3/2021James Burnham: Foreseeing Our Managerial Domination (Part II)
The Right - “Ultimately, in order to thwart the managerial system, the American conservative movement needs to co-opt the managerial system.” 4/27/2021
The Right - “Ultimately, in order to thwart the managerial system, the American conservative movement needs to co-opt the managerial system.” 4/27/2021Independent Wealth: a Prerequisite for Speaking Up?
The Center - “This point deserves all the more consideration today, at a time in recent history that has become uniquely critical of concentrated wealth, both of the inherited and earned variety.” 4/23/2021
The Center - “This point deserves all the more consideration today, at a time in recent history that has become uniquely critical of concentrated wealth, both of the inherited and earned variety.” 4/23/2021A Big, Bad Word
The Center - “But the thinking man ought to deploy le mot juste—the precise term—because of the heartburn it gives petty tyranny, as all truths reliably do.” 4/20/2021
The Center - “But the thinking man ought to deploy le mot juste—the precise term—because of the heartburn it gives petty tyranny, as all truths reliably do.” 4/20/2021Review: John Boehner’s “On the House”
The Center - “On the House does not provide a clear answer, but, if one reads carefully, one might find that Boehner’s short-term pessimism and long-term optimism are both warranted.” 4/19/2021
The Center - “On the House does not provide a clear answer, but, if one reads carefully, one might find that Boehner’s short-term pessimism and long-term optimism are both warranted.” 4/19/2021James Burnham: Foreseeing Our Managerial Domination
The Right - “This depoliticization of the public realm extends to the selection of the managerial class itself. Elections matter not at all. The managers perpetuate themselves…” 4/18/2021
The Right - “This depoliticization of the public realm extends to the selection of the managerial class itself. Elections matter not at all. The managers perpetuate themselves…” 4/18/2021A Brief History of Nothing (Part IV): Wars of the Spirit
The Center - “Lewis observes that young people are no longer being taught to experience a unity with greater powers but, rather, to accept themselves as separated from greater reality.” 4/13/2021
The Center - “Lewis observes that young people are no longer being taught to experience a unity with greater powers but, rather, to accept themselves as separated from greater reality.” 4/13/2021Review: Jamal Greene’s “How Rights Went Wrong”
The Center - “Greene uses abortion jurisprudence as a real-world example of how American law’s approach to rights has gone wrong—and has helped split us up into warring tribes competing for a zero-sum rights pie.” 4/10/2021
The Center - “Greene uses abortion jurisprudence as a real-world example of how American law’s approach to rights has gone wrong—and has helped split us up into warring tribes competing for a zero-sum rights pie.” 4/10/2021DEI: a Trojan Horse for Critical Social Justice in Science
The Center - “As a result, the time has come for scientists to place themselves on the right side of history and reject Critical Social Justice in science as well as its Trojan Horse, DEI as it is currently justified and conceived.” 4/8/2021
The Center - “As a result, the time has come for scientists to place themselves on the right side of history and reject Critical Social Justice in science as well as its Trojan Horse, DEI as it is currently justified and conceived.” 4/8/2021Preparing for the Work Only Humans Can Do
The Center - “Merisotis has written extensively about higher education and the future of work, but Human Work is a departure from much of his past writing.” 4/7/2021
The Center - “Merisotis has written extensively about higher education and the future of work, but Human Work is a departure from much of his past writing.” 4/7/2021Penn’s Imprisoned Black “Guinea Pigs” Deserve an Apology and Reparations
First-Person - “Upon my father’s return, I was shocked by the change in his appearance. His arms and back were a series of scars and discolored blotches.” 4/6/2021
First-Person - “Upon my father’s return, I was shocked by the change in his appearance. His arms and back were a series of scars and discolored blotches.” 4/6/2021Growing Up with the Intellectual Dark Web
The Center - “It was around that time that I, a decidedly aimless and apathetic 15-year-old, would stumble upon a still somewhat blossoming The Rubin Report, along with The Joe Rogan Experience and Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense.” 4/6/2021
The Center - “It was around that time that I, a decidedly aimless and apathetic 15-year-old, would stumble upon a still somewhat blossoming The Rubin Report, along with The Joe Rogan Experience and Sam Harris’ podcast Making Sense.” 4/6/2021