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Why Wendy Brown Remains as Relevant as Ever
“Brown makes the bold choice of echoing conservative critics in scrutinizing left-wing variants of identity politics from a Nietzschean perspective; however, she takes a far more nuanced and less polemical approach.”
How Feasible Is Mexico’s Re-Opening Plan?
“According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OCDE), Mexico is the country within the organization that has the lowest levels of testing: at 0.4 tests per thousand inhabitants.”
Bhaskar Sunkara’s “The Socialist Manifesto” and Understanding Millennial Socialism
“What has become ‘millennial socialism’ arguably got its start in 2011, with the founding of Jacobin, a proudly left-wing magazine that was trendy, readable, and erudite.”
Has Dave Rubin Found His Intellectual Stride?
“I do want to give Rubin the fairest shake I possibly can. As such, instead of commenting on the book generally, I will look at some of the book’s arguments in detail and break them down…”
The Outsourcing of American Tennis
“Should American tennis enthusiasts be deprived the opportunity of receiving a financial scholarship and the college athletic experience because coaches—and an increasing number of them from overseas—believe foreign players are their best chance to win matches?”
The Irrelevance of the Intelligence Debate
“By contrast, those on the Left tend to prefer more transparently social determinants, such as ethnic or economic background and push against anything which seems to ‘naturalize’ inequality by explaining it biologically.”
Understanding Belarus’ Upcoming Presidential Election
“Belarusian independence would become, however, a package of unfulfilled promises.
The Coronavirus Must Alter Our “Normal Way of Life” Going Forward
“If the global social discourse continues to be one where we ignore what does not directly affect us, then when the next global emergency occurs, governments will fail people again.”
Given Tara Reade’s Allegation, the Left Should Reconsider Support for Biden
“It should be deeply disturbing for voters on the Left of the Democratic Party to vote for a candidate who, not only is likely to have sexually assaulted a woman—but who used a position of power to do it and get away with it for years.”
America’s Pastime in the Age of Coronavirus
“Embodying much of the American spirit, baseball once again finds itself on the frontline, being utilized for political gains, with any rebuke of the MLB’s return likely to be chalked up as un-American or—worse still—shouted down as a commie act.”
Why Thomas Piketty Thinks We Should Not Naturalize Inequality
“Piketty wants to re-orient the political left away from cultural and educational issues, which dominate the mindset of the elitist ‘Brahmin left’ in his telling, and back to the economic concerns that were once the Left’s bread and butter”
Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson—Sample Chapter
“One can see here that Peterson, while even less convinced of the equitable distribution of competences than Hobbes, clearly shares his view that life outside the confines of society would necessarily be ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'”
The Problem with Edmund Burke and Defenders of “Tradition”
“The problem here is that one man’s stable hierarchy and proud tradition is another’s tyrannical oppression and ideology.”
The Time Has Come for the Left to Sink the Democratic Party
“If the Left were to abstain from participating in this election en masse, the consequences would be deep.”