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Philip Green

Reflections on Arendt

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In the late winter of 1957-58, while I had just begun courses at NYU Law School, a manuscript landed on the desk of my mother, Frances Green, who at that time was General Manager of Commentary, as she had been since the magazine’s founding in 1946. As General Manager, she was in charge of the…

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After Ferguson: Notes on Oppression

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“It is common, indeed usual, to be uncertain of a boundary but quite certain of what lies well to the east or west of it.” – Walter Stein Oppression “Oppression,” according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is: “the action of exercising arbitrary or cruel power: A system of oppression.” (Italics added) Two corollaries of this definition…

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On Liberalism

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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…

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