The Case for Free Vaccines
The Right - “In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.” 8/1/2020
The Right - “In the meantime, perhaps given their impressive track record, free-to-consumer vaccines are something we can all get behind.” 8/1/2020Creating an Ethos of Individualism in China
The Right - “Although China exhibits authoritarian characteristics, this, by no means, presupposes that liberty is incompatible with its people’s worldview.” 7/28/2020
The Right - “Although China exhibits authoritarian characteristics, this, by no means, presupposes that liberty is incompatible with its people’s worldview.” 7/28/2020Freedom Requires Courage
The Right - “But now, being made ‘uncomfortable’ or being associated with unpopular company is sufficient reason to abandon principle.” 7/27/2020
The Right - “But now, being made ‘uncomfortable’ or being associated with unpopular company is sufficient reason to abandon principle.” 7/27/2020We Need Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Now More Than Ever
The Right - “We must first understand this socialist culture of the woke who seek to control what we think, what we say, and how we live. We must believe—like Solzhenitsyn did—that the truth can defeat them.” 7/16/2020
The Right - “We must first understand this socialist culture of the woke who seek to control what we think, what we say, and how we live. We must believe—like Solzhenitsyn did—that the truth can defeat them.” 7/16/2020The Harper’s Letter: When the Boring Becomes Incendiary
The Center - “Since the response to the letter was far from boring, two things can be asserted. First, a growing minority no longer believes free speech to be valuable. Secondly, those who do believe in free speech no longer believe that it is fully operational. 7/15/2020
The Center - “Since the response to the letter was far from boring, two things can be asserted. First, a growing minority no longer believes free speech to be valuable. Secondly, those who do believe in free speech no longer believe that it is fully operational. 7/15/2020The Shadow of Progress
The Right - “In a worldview that prizes purity above progress, the flawed and erroneous are stains to be expunged. Their remembrance is not only deplorable but damning by association.” 7/12/2020
The Right - “In a worldview that prizes purity above progress, the flawed and erroneous are stains to be expunged. Their remembrance is not only deplorable but damning by association.” 7/12/2020Synecdoche, New York and Synecdoche, Croatia
The Center - “Something very similar—and, only slightly less surreal—is currently happening in the Republic of Croatia.” 7/11/2020
The Center - “Something very similar—and, only slightly less surreal—is currently happening in the Republic of Croatia.” 7/11/2020The Unimaginative Hysteria of Umair Haque
The Right - “Never mind that it is the Trump administration standing up for Uyghur Muslims, actual victims of genocide, by imposing sanctions on CPC officials this past week.” 7/10/2020
The Right - “Never mind that it is the Trump administration standing up for Uyghur Muslims, actual victims of genocide, by imposing sanctions on CPC officials this past week.” 7/10/2020The Dangers of Politicizing the Coronavirus
The Center - “It is not often that everyone in the country faces the same towering life-and-death challenge all at once, which is why we should drop the cheap partisan smears and start talking honestly about the greatest threat we have confronted in a generation.” 7/5/2020
The Center - “It is not often that everyone in the country faces the same towering life-and-death challenge all at once, which is why we should drop the cheap partisan smears and start talking honestly about the greatest threat we have confronted in a generation.” 7/5/2020Anti-Racism Demonstrations That Are Just Too Much
The Center - “Those doing things like reenacting a slave raid may have noble intentions, but they are sending the wrong message.” 7/3/2020
The Center - “Those doing things like reenacting a slave raid may have noble intentions, but they are sending the wrong message.” 7/3/2020When Censorship Is Outsourced to the Private Sector
The Right - “Our commitment to the rights of others to express themselves, even if they hold heinous beliefs, is something uniquely American, and it is perhaps the finest piece of our cultural heritage.” 7/2/2020
The Right - “Our commitment to the rights of others to express themselves, even if they hold heinous beliefs, is something uniquely American, and it is perhaps the finest piece of our cultural heritage.” 7/2/2020Notes on Change and “First World Problems”
The Left - “And as the COVID-19 crisis that has changed seemingly everything shows, en masse unemployment and distrust of the federal government is now a “first world reality.”” 6/29/2020
The Left - “And as the COVID-19 crisis that has changed seemingly everything shows, en masse unemployment and distrust of the federal government is now a “first world reality.”” 6/29/2020Liberate the Other Half: Empowering the “Back Row” of America
The Center - “Rather than cracking down on higher-income Americans, it is past time to liberate the other half.” 6/23/2020
The Center - “Rather than cracking down on higher-income Americans, it is past time to liberate the other half.” 6/23/2020Parallels Between the Coronavirus and Refugee Crises
The Left - “This is a perfect example of why a global problem needs a single multilateral response, and not various contradictory unilateral responses.” 6/22/2020
The Left - “This is a perfect example of why a global problem needs a single multilateral response, and not various contradictory unilateral responses.” 6/22/2020How Mexico’s Drug Cartels Have Exploited the Pandemic
The Left - “In Mexico, the most effective influencers are either politicians or drug lords.” 6/19/2020
The Left - “In Mexico, the most effective influencers are either politicians or drug lords.” 6/19/2020Why People Hate Jordan Peterson So Much
The Right - “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'” 6/14/2020
The Right - “Peterson continued, ‘So the Soviets really implemented and perfected the idea of class and ethnicity based guilt, and it’s a very bad road to walk down, and it’s something that we’re very much engaged in at the moment.'” 6/14/2020