Modern international sanctions are barbarism, disguised as diplomacy; the losses incurred from this lack of cooperation limits the potential of all humanity, and sanctions themselves serve only to diminish the humanity that lies in their paths, never the elite or system which they are allegedly focused on curtailing, reforming or
I was hooked. It wasn’t since I first saw Pulp Fiction on HBO that I was so enamored by a film. 1994’s Clerks on VHS shone forth to me a promise of a cinematic universe bound by pop culture ephemera and Star Wars references. Echoing many of the
It is nearly always productive to explore the tension between democracy and liberty, as this is not a tension that any society resolves on a lasting basis. Resolutions are by nature temporary and tenuous—immediately reviled, vigorously renegotiated, and, sometimes, productively reformed. That is why Annelien De Dijn’s Freedom:
The long expected death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg so soon before the election has all but guaranteed a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the nation’s highest court. The bitter, divisive, unforgiving politics of Supreme Court appointments has kicked into high gear once again. Just four years ago, a Republican Senate
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was called a crude misogynistic epithet by Congressman Ted Yoho, the largely universal furur grew, rightly, upon the misogyny of the statement. Lost in this however, is what he was reacting to: her argument that the recent spike in crime in NYC was caused by the COVID-19
It is difficult to offer a definition or even description of liberalism without referring to some kind of individualism. Liberalism assumes an inherent moral value in each person and defends their right to make their own decisions for their own lives. This has frequently put it into tension with nationalism,
From 1937 to 1960, one third of the population of mothers on the island of Puerto Rico were sterilized through manipulation and misinformation, while others became part of the first clinical trials for the first birth control pill after being misled to believe that the drug was already proven safe.
John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty stands as one of the pillars of modern liberal thought. It is embraced by libertarians and classical liberals for its elaboration of the “harm principle,” a seemingly significant constraint on government action. But there is also much in there for the progressive liberal. Often
In 2015, the film A Place Where the Dream Begins (translated) was released in China to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s (XUAR) official designation as an “autonomous region” in 1955, rather than a province. Showcasing the majestic beauty of the mountains and deserts of
This March, with more than 4,400 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in France, the French Prime Minister announced a full, nation-wide lockdown. Shops were shuttered, parks were closed, and locals were confined to their homes except for essential shopping and one hour of exercise per day. And of course, the
A specter is haunting the West—the specter of Social Justice. All the powers of old civil society have entered into a wicked alliance to convoke this specter: colleges and universities, broadcasters and newspapers, preachers and politicians. It is high time that the West should openly, in the face of
Liberal centrists are fond of horseshoe theory—the idea that the political spectrum is curved, so that if you go far enough left, or far enough right, you end up in the same place of totalitarianism, intolerance, and violence. Horseshoe theory is misleading though. Fascists make efforts to recruit across