Excerpt: “Moral Courage: 19 Profiles of Investigative Journalists”
The Left - “To understand India’s slippery descent, one should read the reportage of Neha Dixit, a 37-year-old New Delhi-based freelance journalist.” 11/21/2023

The Press Mustn’t Ignore America’s Gang Crisis
The Center - “There is a formula—unfortunately, I have noticed—when it comes to many in the reality-denying national press: Make a few accurate micro-points but use them to arrive at a conclusion that no reasonable person should believe.” 11/17/2023

Excerpt: “Getting Elected Is the Easy Part”
The Left - “Although an overt threat is never clearly articulated, the potential for serious political consequences makes it all the more trepidatious to consider crossing the aisle on a big bill where every vote is counted and closely watched.” 11/16/2023

What One Must Understand about the New Israel War
The Right - “The ‘peace process’ and the ‘two-state solution’ are other thought clichés that must be questioned because ultimately whoever speaks of these, or even more generally of a ‘political settlement,’ has not understood the conflict at all.” 11/11/2023

The Problems with Diversity Training
The Center - “This is an admirable aim, but there is just one big problem: Diversity training is not working.” 11/8/2023

Why I Left the Democratic Party to Support Donald Trump
The Right - “I realized that if my Columbia education were to have any meaning, I would have to be bold and risk my music career and go public with my support of President Trump, who was the President of the United States at the time of my graduation in 2017.” 11/5/2023

Reflections on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of the American Dream
The Center - “I was not there at the Memorial in the sweltering heat and humidity of Washington. I saw it through the magic of our black-and-white Muntz television set in my family’s Italian tavern in Cleveland, Ohio.” 10/23/2023

Urgently Reconsidering the Doctrine of Multiculturalism
The Right - “As is sadly often the case, it is only when an issue becomes overwhelmingly acute or when it is too late to correct course, that those once derided as alarmists are dutifully acknowledged to have been correct all along.” 10/21/2023

Harvard Needs to Be Consistent on the Virtue of Free Speech
The Center - “As my co-author Kai Whiting and I argue in an upcoming book…free speech debates have become not simply a matter of whether or to what extent certain ideas should be banished from the public domain, but why, how, and for whom they should be restricted.” 10/16/2023

Incurious: George and the Postcolonialists
The Center - “Schwartz-DuPre is dedicated to putting an end to the idea that Curious George is nothing more than an amusing story.” 9/27/2023

The Russo-Ukrainian War: A Very Simple Conflict
The Left - “The Rada’s final decree is a reproach to all those who think of Ukraine as nothing more than an appendage of Russia, without a culture and a history of its own.” 8/29/2023

What Socrates Can Teach Us about Political Discourse
The Center - “Rather than treating the other in a Socratic manner—which is to say, as a partner in the communal quest for truth—the polemicist roundly delegitimizes the other and reduces him to an ‘adversary, an enemy, who is wrong and whose very existence constitutes a threat.'” 8/27/2023

Plato and the Pursuit of Justice
The Center - “Those who do not make justice the central concern for Plato are not talking about Plato at all.” 7/11/2023

Excerpt: “How Hitchens Can Save the Left”
The Left - “When he saw his old left-wing comrades busily hatching excuses for neutrality as Slobodan Milošević waged war on Bosnia, he realized that much of the Left was either indifferent about this confrontation or on the wrong side.” 6/13/2023

Heidegger and Nazism: The Philosophy of Being and the Politics of National Socialism
The Center - “I argue against the apologetics of the sycophantic defenders of Heidegger who claim that his involvement with National Socialism is wholly reducible to his political naïveté, which includes his gross overestimation of philosophy’s power to sway and influence the development of Germany’s ‘political’ history.” 6/12/2023

Black War Cinema and the Representation Paradox
The Right - “For all of their insistence on cultural revolution, progressives are not yet ready to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.” 6/8/2023
