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EZRA KLEIN: No, and I really mean this, and everybody is right. I’ve come to think of this kind of thing. And I think there are many dynamics like this, that you have to think of it like an ecosystem. We always want people to be the right balance, but ecosystems need to be in balance. You need young political thinking that is kind of wild and doesn... See more

I Don't Care About the Issues

Michael Huemer fakenous.substack.com

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

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to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more

challenges us to rethink the classic bright-line distinction between combatants and noncombatants. This line, which lies at the core of the international law of war, has been exploited in the interest of terrorism.

Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel

Arnold Kling, an economist, published a book a decade ago that offered a way to think about the core difference between progressives and conservatives. Progressives, Kling wrote, see the world as a struggle between the oppressor and the oppressed, and they try to help the oppressed. Conservatives see the world as a struggle between civilization and... See more

Indeed, I will argue that liberty in the broad sense requires judges and officials, when applying legal principles, to assert norms of reasonableness. Otherwise, self-interested people will use law to claim almost anything.

Philip K. Howard • Everyday Freedom: Designing the Framework for a Flourishing Society

No Place to Hide

Glenn Greenwald

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