Edward J. Watts: Dissecting the Rhetoric of Decline
The Center - “But one of the dangers is it’s very easy when there is change that makes someone uncomfortable to immediately say that this is a society that’s in decline and to blame somebody for causing it.” 7/22/2021
The Center - “But one of the dangers is it’s very easy when there is change that makes someone uncomfortable to immediately say that this is a society that’s in decline and to blame somebody for causing it.” 7/22/2021Kai Whiting: Clearing up Misconceptions about Stoicism
The Center - “The other fans that have a dangerously inaccurate idea about what it means to be Stoic are the ‘Broics.'” 7/12/2021
The Center - “The other fans that have a dangerously inaccurate idea about what it means to be Stoic are the ‘Broics.'” 7/12/2021Gov. Brian Kemp: How to Stand up to Corporate Pressure
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021Mary Harrington: Family Formation in the 2020s
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Immigration, Islam, and Christopher Hitchens
The Center - “What I have found in the book is strong enough to suggest that there is a correlation between mass migration from Muslim-majority countries and the increase in sexual violence.” 5/16/2021
The Center - “What I have found in the book is strong enough to suggest that there is a correlation between mass migration from Muslim-majority countries and the increase in sexual violence.” 5/16/2021Antje Ellermann: What Drives a Country’s Openness to Immigration
The Center - “Interest group pressure typically opens up immigration.” 4/29/2021
The Center - “Interest group pressure typically opens up immigration.” 4/29/2021Elena Thérèse-Rose: Making Catholicism Shareable (Especially on the Web)
The Right - “Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.” 4/11/2021
The Right - “Secondly, I’d say good advice is to gain familiarity with the saints and to perhaps gain some friends among the saints because often they are the best examples.” 4/11/2021Nicholas Kristof Discusses “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope”
The Left - “One of the reasons our anti-poverty efforts in America don’t do better is we start too late. We need to help kids early on.” 2/28/2021
The Left - “One of the reasons our anti-poverty efforts in America don’t do better is we start too late. We need to help kids early on.” 2/28/2021Robert Orlando: Bending Genre in Filmmaking
The Center - “If you look through the films, it’s a propaganda machine, where identity politics is always featured. There’s no space there for just a common universal story, which is the appeal to human frailty or common ground.” 2/26/2021
The Center - “If you look through the films, it’s a propaganda machine, where identity politics is always featured. There’s no space there for just a common universal story, which is the appeal to human frailty or common ground.” 2/26/2021David French Talks “Divided We Fall”
The Right - “Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.'” 2/17/2021
The Right - “Well, the first paragraph basically says it all. It begins with ‘The continued unity of the United States of America cannot be guaranteed.'” 2/17/2021Wes Jackson: How to Respect One’s Tools
The Left - “I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.” 2/15/2021
The Left - “I’m Robert Jensen. I’ll be your guide into the restless and relentless mind of Wes Jackson. I first bumped into Wes’ work more than three decades ago, and his ideas have had a profound influence on my thinking about society and ecology.” 2/15/2021Jonathan Church: Getting to the Bottom of the Robin DiAngelo Craze
The Center - “I go through a whole analysis of that and why—statistically speaking—you’re basically making a very broad statement about white people in general based on one observation in one Jeopardy! episode.” 2/1/2021
The Center - “I go through a whole analysis of that and why—statistically speaking—you’re basically making a very broad statement about white people in general based on one observation in one Jeopardy! episode.” 2/1/2021Ray Haynes: Why Republicans Should Support the Popular Vote
The Right - “In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.” 1/19/2021
The Right - “In the battleground states, since 2000, Republicans have won the popular vote four out of six times. In fact, Donald Trump—in 2020—won the battleground states by over 2.1 million votes.” 1/19/2021Kevin Williamson: How to Improve the Lot of Those Left Behind
The Right - “And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.” 1/9/2021
The Right - “And he wrote this very famous novel called Infinite Jest, which he described as a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness. And so, I think in some ways, I’ve written a very sad book about the pursuit of happiness as well.” 1/9/2021Alfie Bown: Where Politics and Gaming Meet
The Left - “I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.” 1/8/2021
The Left - “I think there’s great potential in video games. In some ways, they are the primary space in which the culture wars are now being fought.” 1/8/2021Thomas Ricks: Politics, as Seen from Aristotle to Trump
The Left - “And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.” 1/7/2021
The Left - “And so I remembered from college: When you’re facing a problem that seems deeply puzzling, go back to fundamentals, go to first principles. So I took Aristotle’s Politics off my shelf, my old college copy, and reread it in the context of the election of Donald Trump.” 1/7/2021