Review: 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.” 4/6/2021Where Race and Language Meet The Center - “Dropping one term in favor of another will not, by itself, solve any great problem, but it can make finding a solution a bit more likely.” 4/3/2021
The Center - “Dropping one term in favor of another will not, by itself, solve any great problem, but it can make finding a solution a bit more likely.” 4/3/2021Understanding the Mind of a Rioter The Center - “This tendency to equate nuanced thinking and nonviolence with a lack of political conviction is typical of radicals.” 4/1/2021
The Center - “This tendency to equate nuanced thinking and nonviolence with a lack of political conviction is typical of radicals.” 4/1/2021When They Say Abortion and Capital Punishment Are One and the Same The Center - “One cannot help but wonder if this is little more than a tactic adopted by supporters of abortion to seek to discredit pro-life activists by implying that their entire worldview rests on a contradiction.” 3/31/2021
The Center - “One cannot help but wonder if this is little more than a tactic adopted by supporters of abortion to seek to discredit pro-life activists by implying that their entire worldview rests on a contradiction.” 3/31/2021Rialpolitik: The New Iranian Dealmakers The Center - “Policy towards Iran must be suited not to religious ideologues who happen to be flush with petrocash but, rather, to racketeers who happen to be religious ideologues.” 3/30/2021
The Center - “Policy towards Iran must be suited not to religious ideologues who happen to be flush with petrocash but, rather, to racketeers who happen to be religious ideologues.” 3/30/2021The Civic Moment The Center - “Instead, we should follow President Biden and Gorman’s lead and frame our political debate and public discourse within an overarching language of civic virtue.” 3/30/2021
The Center - “Instead, we should follow President Biden and Gorman’s lead and frame our political debate and public discourse within an overarching language of civic virtue.” 3/30/2021Joe Biden: the New Face for Much of the Same on Immigration The Left - “Democrats have long gotten away with murder this way, shaking migrant hands in public view while mercilessly oppressing them out of sight.” 3/27/2021
The Left - “Democrats have long gotten away with murder this way, shaking migrant hands in public view while mercilessly oppressing them out of sight.” 3/27/2021Is Joe Biden the Future of Liberalism? Let’s Hope So The Center - “Will the Democrats prove captive to cultural grievance, identity politics, anti-racism, and the like? Or will they throw their lot in with Biden-style moderates…” 3/24/2021
The Center - “Will the Democrats prove captive to cultural grievance, identity politics, anti-racism, and the like? Or will they throw their lot in with Biden-style moderates…” 3/24/2021Flexible Government Is Good Government The Center - “When to allow discretion on the part of public servants is not an easy question to answer.” 3/21/2021
The Center - “When to allow discretion on the part of public servants is not an easy question to answer.” 3/21/2021Europe’s Descent into Wokeness The Center - “In Austria, for example, police have shot a dozen people since 2008; none of them were black.” 3/16/2021
The Center - “In Austria, for example, police have shot a dozen people since 2008; none of them were black.” 3/16/2021Let’s Make the Founders Less Unique The Center - “If our halls of power are rife with mini Aaron Burrs, what does that say about us?” 3/15/2021
The Center - “If our halls of power are rife with mini Aaron Burrs, what does that say about us?” 3/15/2021Is Jordan Peterson Doomed by Liberalism Itself? The Right - “The publication of Peterson’s latest book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life is an opportunity to reflect on the impact this man has had on the cultural debate…” 3/14/2021
The Right - “The publication of Peterson’s latest book, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life is an opportunity to reflect on the impact this man has had on the cultural debate…” 3/14/2021