Preview: “A Critical Legal Conception of Liberalism and Liberal Rights”
The Left - “My new book, A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights, holds that liberalism is best understood as a political and moral doctrine committed to two fundamental principles.” 12/1/2020
The Left - “My new book, A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights, holds that liberalism is best understood as a political and moral doctrine committed to two fundamental principles.” 12/1/2020The Center Must Hold
The Center - “Having engaged with Schlesinger’s thinking, readers should ask themselves: Here in the 21st century, what are the greatest threats to the liberal democratic project at home and abroad?” 12/1/2020
The Center - “Having engaged with Schlesinger’s thinking, readers should ask themselves: Here in the 21st century, what are the greatest threats to the liberal democratic project at home and abroad?” 12/1/2020The Monstrosity of Gnosticism
The Center - “Milbank is perhaps correct, then, in seeing that Žižek is so heterodox in his reading that he has crossed the Rubicon into something detached from the stream of Christian thought.” 11/30/2020
The Center - “Milbank is perhaps correct, then, in seeing that Žižek is so heterodox in his reading that he has crossed the Rubicon into something detached from the stream of Christian thought.” 11/30/2020Review: Carlos Lozada’s “What Were We Thinking”
The Center - “Lozada’s book provides a comprehensive, incisive analysis of the intellectual debates that defined the Trump-era. As we plunge forward into a post-Trump presidency politics, it is a must read.” 11/20/2020
The Center - “Lozada’s book provides a comprehensive, incisive analysis of the intellectual debates that defined the Trump-era. As we plunge forward into a post-Trump presidency politics, it is a must read.” 11/20/2020Letter to an American Agonist
Why America - “What the United States shares with Athens is not the pretense of democracy, or any other feature of the content of her tradition but, rather, her citizens’ uncommon commitment to contesting it.” 11/19/2020
Why America - “What the United States shares with Athens is not the pretense of democracy, or any other feature of the content of her tradition but, rather, her citizens’ uncommon commitment to contesting it.” 11/19/2020Finding Hope When All Seems Lost
The Center - “The alarming juxtaposition is that on the other side of this brick wall were patients dying from malaria and children being born with HIV. However, the sheer joy and optimism of this village was unbreakable and, in every sense, unexplainable.” 11/18/2020
The Center - “The alarming juxtaposition is that on the other side of this brick wall were patients dying from malaria and children being born with HIV. However, the sheer joy and optimism of this village was unbreakable and, in every sense, unexplainable.” 11/18/2020I Voted for Trump, and I’m Not a Racist
The Center - “But I had never voted in a presidential election until this year. So why did I vote in 2020?” 11/18/2020
The Center - “But I had never voted in a presidential election until this year. So why did I vote in 2020?” 11/18/2020Review: Ted Cruz’s “One Vote Away”
The Center - “One Vote Away serves as a useful primer on some of the great constitutional issues of our day, while also proving that legal judgment and political judgment are separate matters.” 11/17/2020
The Center - “One Vote Away serves as a useful primer on some of the great constitutional issues of our day, while also proving that legal judgment and political judgment are separate matters.” 11/17/2020What the Winning Conservative Coalition Looks Like
The Right - “Those who work with ideas increasingly vote for the Democrats, while those who work in physical reality with their hands or machinery increasingly vote Republican.” 11/16/2020
The Right - “Those who work with ideas increasingly vote for the Democrats, while those who work in physical reality with their hands or machinery increasingly vote Republican.” 11/16/2020Meritocratic Tyranny: Big, If True
The Center - “But Sandel’s critique of meritocracy runs deeper than lamenting the obvious gap between meritocratic ideals and reality; Sandel takes issue with the ideal of meritocracy itself.” 11/13/2020
The Center - “But Sandel’s critique of meritocracy runs deeper than lamenting the obvious gap between meritocratic ideals and reality; Sandel takes issue with the ideal of meritocracy itself.” 11/13/2020Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor (Part II)
The Center - “In short, Kendi’s consequentialist view of racism as rooted in policy (which, however unpredictably and unintentionally, results in racial disparities) does not explain everything.” 11/12/2020
The Center - “In short, Kendi’s consequentialist view of racism as rooted in policy (which, however unpredictably and unintentionally, results in racial disparities) does not explain everything.” 11/12/2020A Soviet Immigrant Reminds Americans What They’ve Forgotten
Why America - “This country confers upon people the basic, fundamental dignity—starkly absent in Soviet Russia and in many other places on Earth—of drawing a more-or-less direct line between our life choices and our lives’ outcomes.” 11/11/2020
Why America - “This country confers upon people the basic, fundamental dignity—starkly absent in Soviet Russia and in many other places on Earth—of drawing a more-or-less direct line between our life choices and our lives’ outcomes.” 11/11/2020Žižek and Milbank: The Monstrosity of Christ?
The Left - “However, the purpose of this reading is to stress—contra more conservative interpreters like Milbank—that the disordered post-modern world that we inhabit is not a firm break with Christianity.” 11/10/2020
The Left - “However, the purpose of this reading is to stress—contra more conservative interpreters like Milbank—that the disordered post-modern world that we inhabit is not a firm break with Christianity.” 11/10/2020We’re Divided. But Will We Fall?
The Center - “French dedicates his book to James Madison, saying, ‘May we remember that you were right.'” 11/9/2020
The Center - “French dedicates his book to James Madison, saying, ‘May we remember that you were right.'” 11/9/2020How Biden Did It
The Right - “The Economist’s less-than-ringing endorsement of the former Vice President—resignedly titled, ‘Why it has to be Biden’—typifies the sentiment.” 11/8/2020
The Right - “The Economist’s less-than-ringing endorsement of the former Vice President—resignedly titled, ‘Why it has to be Biden’—typifies the sentiment.” 11/8/2020Ibram Kendi’s Thesis Could Use a Lot More Rigor
The Center - “For Kendi, it is policy first and racism second. Debatable? That is a racist question. Maybe a presentist interpretation of history? Also racist.” 11/7/2020
The Center - “For Kendi, it is policy first and racism second. Debatable? That is a racist question. Maybe a presentist interpretation of history? Also racist.” 11/7/2020