Very few of us expected liberalism to have such a rocky 21st century. At the turn of the 20th, liberal ideology and … More
Category: Political Philosophy
“Why I Left Harvard”–Carole Hooven
Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and … More
Who Does the Land Belong To: Israelis or Palestinians?
Secularism in Iran
The fact is that, as we have noted earlier, there is a large portion of Iranians within the country calling … More
How the women’s movement transformed society
After Betty Friedan got her Smith College classmates to complete a questionnaire about their lives at their 15th reunion in … More
Identity Politics and Cancel Culture w/Norm Finkelstein
The contemporary culture war over the role of racism, patriarchy, and other questions of oppression and identity in American society … More
Identity Politics
Wokeness begins with concern for marginalised persons, but it ends up reducing each person to the prism of her marginalisation, … More
When “Postliberalism” Means Reaction: On Patrick J. Deneen’s “Regime Change”
Decades ago, a number of “communitarian” writers—including Christopher Lasch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Bellah, Daniel Bell, Michael Sandel, Jean Elshtain, and … More
Mahatma Gandhi
“Gandhi was a first-rate politician, second-rate saint, and third-rate thinker.”–DSR
The University Of Oxford Dominated Philosophy In The Twentieth Century
Largely thanks to Ryle and his colleagues, by the 1950s Oxford had ascended to a commanding position in philosophy, at … More
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