Essays
The separation of church and state is on its deathbed. The encroachment of religion into the public square over the past several decades is a threat to democratic norms and sensibilities. It is commensurate with the merger of religion and the state, and we should be very concerned. Among the darkest forces in human history has been…
Read Full Article...On October 15 of last year, Elizabeth Warren faced an onslaught from her more centrist rivals in the presidential debate. Speaking about the importance of reaching across the aisle in the spirit of bipartisanship, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, and Amy Klobuchar criticized Warren for being too far to the left, endorsing Medicare for All and other…
Read Full Article...“Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work everyday and take their children to school,” asked San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed in an interview with KQED, a San Francisco based media company.[1] This was her response to a question about a previous statement saying that…
Read Full Article...The reception of Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness has always been fraught, even frankly hostile. The early attacks among Marxists in the Soviet Union and Hungary provoked Lukács to write a clarifying “Defense” of his book, but he did not publish it and it has only recently been available. Those early attacks were effective: History and Class Consciousness practically…
Read Full Article...Robert J. Lacey Introduction The insurrection on January 6, 2021 was one of the darkest hours in American political history. If there were any doubts that we live in desperate times, the images from that day have dispelled them for good. Searching for causes, many commentators have pointed to our fragmented media landscape and to the echo…
Read Full Article...I had to be reminded that 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the passing of one of the greatest thinkers of the 20thcentury: W.E.B. Dubois. Du Bois passed away the day before the legendary 1963 March on Washington. In fact, a few months prior to his death he wrote a solidarity statement with those engaged in the march. A…
Read Full Article...Writing in response to a liberal criticism of a bill that “would make illegal the use of any ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion [DEI] statements’ as part of the hiring, promotion and tenure process,” a philosophy professor at Brown, Felicia Nimue Ackerman, argued that “making such statements part of the hiring, promotion and tenure process is also an…
Read Full Article...A Limit to Contingency In The Last Utopia (2012), Samuel Moyn famously argued that “human rights” as a principle transcending the prerogatives of nation-states did not actually emerge until the 1970s. The idea in this “pure” form only appeared then because it stood out in that context as “the God that did not fail while other political ideologies…
Read Full Article...The world is made up of differences and similarities in culture and convictions. Unfortunately, it seems that the former has been gaining the attention of the global communities because of the different problems that have developed from it. Thousands of cultures have little meeting points with others, and there are different rationales behind the cultural…
Read Full Article...Lately, it seems to be everywhere: conflict, and a bit of connection. Yet what do we do about it? How do we learn to cope with it? “I am amazed the amount of contention there can be in politics in so many countries,” says my friend Karmi, based in Tel Aviv but currently traveling the world.…
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2024: Vol. 23, No. 3
Latest Issue
2024: Vol. 23, No. 3
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