Magic Kingdom Authoritarianism
Trump, Orbán, revival, and the superficial strongman.
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The History Putin Would Rather Forget
Putin's selective recounting of Russia's history with Ukraine speaks volumes.
Freedom from Fear and the Specter of Perfection
A review of Alan Kahan's history of liberalism.
Is Civil Government Right?
With all the drawbacks upon government which fancy can depict, or imagination conjure up, society possessing it, is as paradise to pandemonium, compared with society without it.
Reading Boethius in the Trumpocene
The classics are neither self-help books nor sources of conservative propaganda
Reintroducing Ronald Dworkin
A leftist alternative to originalism is needed now more than ever
The Face of Christian Authoritarianism: Giving to Trump What Is Trump’s
How American Christianity moved from right-wing activism to outright idolatry in the Trump era
Chris Rufo and the Great Liberal Threat
Rufo is the latest in a long line of conservatives who project their own victimhood to mobilize support
Patrick Deneen Fails to Understand the Liberal Tradition
A review of Patrick Deneen's Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.
Frankly Illiberal, Fukuyama
The esteemed political scientist and founding editor of American Purpose, Francis Fukuyama, has taken aim at woke liberalism, which he defines as “[interpreting inequality not as] between broad social classes like bourgeois and proletariat, but rather as the marginalization of narrower identity groups based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual
Russia's Rebels: An Interview with Linor Goralik of ROAR
An interview with the founder of the Resistance and Opposition Arts Review (ROAR)
A Canadian Perspective on Freedom and Gun Ownership in America
How the proliferation of guns in private life leads to draconian restrictions in public life