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What Chomsky gets right
America's record is actually pretty bad, especially in the Middle East.
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How to Break Up With The News
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The Singapore "Model" Is An Illusion
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Why Are Americans So Entitled?
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Three Propositions On "Wokeness"
Wokeness is a spiritual problem. It deserves a spiritual answer.
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George W. Bush was wrong about human nature
The most moralistic American president was also the most hypocritical. This wasn't an accident.
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Chomsky was right. America is hypocritical. So what?
Hypocrites are the worst. But nations aren't necessarily the same as people.
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A Liberalism That Always Wants More For Itself
Yes, liberal neutrality is a fiction. But that doesn't mean we can't strive for it.
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Will Muslims leave the Democratic Party?
On the growing tensions between the progressive left and yet another minority group.
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The Singapore "Model" Is An Illusion
Even benevolent autocracies don't last forever.
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Ten Years Gone
Remembering the military coup in Egypt and America's complicity.
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Democracy and Other Problems
Democracy and Other Problems
A newsletter committed to exploring how and why democracy produces "bad" outcomes—and what to do about it.
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