How Online Meme Culture Fails the Left
The Left - “As such, it is not simply the case that coherent political dialogue is difficult via the Internet; it is difficult, in large part, because of the Internet…” 10/28/2020
The Left - “As such, it is not simply the case that coherent political dialogue is difficult via the Internet; it is difficult, in large part, because of the Internet…” 10/28/2020Stop Saying Biden Is “A Lot like Trump” on China
The Center - “All the headlines about how we will see a continuation of President Trump’s China policies under a potential Biden administration ignore their radically divergent views about the United States’ role in the world.” 10/27/2020
The Center - “All the headlines about how we will see a continuation of President Trump’s China policies under a potential Biden administration ignore their radically divergent views about the United States’ role in the world.” 10/27/2020Jordan Peterson and the Return of Solzhenitsyn
The Right - “The world was on this brink of this fiery hell when Jordan Peterson read Solzhenitsyn and began to turn from despair toward hope.” 10/26/2020
The Right - “The world was on this brink of this fiery hell when Jordan Peterson read Solzhenitsyn and began to turn from despair toward hope.” 10/26/2020Paging Mr. Moynihan
The Center - “We can only hope that Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s approach to politics will be rediscovered. Books like American Burke should function as essential guides in this most necessary search.” 10/21/2020
The Center - “We can only hope that Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s approach to politics will be rediscovered. Books like American Burke should function as essential guides in this most necessary search.” 10/21/2020On Donald Trump, the Person
The Left - “Throughout my writings on post-modern conservatism, I have generally avoided discussing President Donald Trump’s personality.” 10/20/2020
The Left - “Throughout my writings on post-modern conservatism, I have generally avoided discussing President Donald Trump’s personality.” 10/20/2020Patrick Deneen: Grappling with the Failures of Liberalism
The Right - “This conquest of the engines of social formation is, as Patrick Deneen argues, why liberalism is failing.” 10/16/2020
The Right - “This conquest of the engines of social formation is, as Patrick Deneen argues, why liberalism is failing.” 10/16/2020That Day
The Center - “Ten years ago I received a call from my father, Mario Vargas Llosa, telling me that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.” 10/16/2020
The Center - “Ten years ago I received a call from my father, Mario Vargas Llosa, telling me that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.” 10/16/2020America at the End of History
The Center - “The universal end-state society, Kojève argued, was the society in which any individual could attain what he desired with ease and without opposition…” 10/15/2020
The Center - “The universal end-state society, Kojève argued, was the society in which any individual could attain what he desired with ease and without opposition…” 10/15/2020The Problems with Porn
The Center - “And whether or not one believes that sex is sacred, it is hard to deny that the porn industry has commodified sex in ways that rid it of all that made it human.” 10/15/2020
The Center - “And whether or not one believes that sex is sacred, it is hard to deny that the porn industry has commodified sex in ways that rid it of all that made it human.” 10/15/2020Pharmakon V: Culture Wars—Trickle-Down Economics vs. Trickle-Down Morality
The Left - “Without this circumspection, advocacy appears heavy-handed, tone-deaf, mistimed, and ultimately self-defeating, to the detriment of the downtrodden.” 10/14/2020
The Left - “Without this circumspection, advocacy appears heavy-handed, tone-deaf, mistimed, and ultimately self-defeating, to the detriment of the downtrodden.” 10/14/2020Van Morrison’s “Dangerous” Songs
The Right - “But, furthermore, there is virtue in urging society to introspection over blind obedience to narratives.” 10/13/2020
The Right - “But, furthermore, there is virtue in urging society to introspection over blind obedience to narratives.” 10/13/2020How to Be a Non-Racist
The Center - “Non-racism, thus understood, implies colorblindness, not in the sense of literally not seeing skin color, but in the sense of treating it as insignificant.” 10/12/2020
The Center - “Non-racism, thus understood, implies colorblindness, not in the sense of literally not seeing skin color, but in the sense of treating it as insignificant.” 10/12/2020Ten Books Every Progressive Should Read to Understand the Right
The Left - “One question I am often asked by engaged leftists is what texts are most helpful for understanding the political right.” 10/8/2020
The Left - “One question I am often asked by engaged leftists is what texts are most helpful for understanding the political right.” 10/8/2020Patrick Deneen: A Primer
The Right - “Or is man—like some argue of Odysseus—a restless seeker of new places, people, and experiences?” 10/5/2020
The Right - “Or is man—like some argue of Odysseus—a restless seeker of new places, people, and experiences?” 10/5/2020A Vision for Human Flourishing
The Center - “Just like we would not accept the transportation technology of the 1800’s, we should not compulsorily accept archaic attitudes toward work, education, possessions, and leisure.” 10/4/2020
The Center - “Just like we would not accept the transportation technology of the 1800’s, we should not compulsorily accept archaic attitudes toward work, education, possessions, and leisure.” 10/4/2020The Crowding out of a Humanities Education
The Left - “Taken to its logical apotheosis, this trend all but guarantees that the humanities—philosophy, literature, journalism, etc.—will become the exclusive domain of the economic elite.” 10/3/2020
The Left - “Taken to its logical apotheosis, this trend all but guarantees that the humanities—philosophy, literature, journalism, etc.—will become the exclusive domain of the economic elite.” 10/3/2020