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What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
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The text explores the intersections of race, racism, and philosophy, particularly through the works of notable thinkers, analyzing their implications within democratic governance and societal structures.
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I want to show the specific ways that Coltrane the person and artist used his music, work, spiritual life, identity, and community to express, indeed practice, a conception of freedom that remains useful today.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
The late Derrick Bell, the first tenured African American professor at Harvard Law School, is often regarded as the progenitor of what we generally call critical race Theory, having derived the name by inserting race into his area of specialty: critical legal theory.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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The text analyzes democratic socialism, emphasizing the historical role of the Black Panther Party in advocating communal socialism, addressing class divisions, and challenging capitalism while highlighting their community survival programs and broader social implications.
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