The White Woman’s Burden
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Those assuming the White Woman’s Burden believe that there is a moral elect embedded in almost every population whose job it is to liberate the majority from ... Read more.
Evil in a Box
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That the contrast between good and evil might be clear-cut in a given moment of history, I do not dispute. The problem comes when we put that particular and nec... Read more.
Technocrats and Authoritarianism
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As the ideal of representative democracy moved to the center of European and American life, those slated to lose power began touting a modern wisdom that would ... Read more.
A Frivolous People No Longer
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It might be time to reject those who tell us that life is a frivolous game and to remind them that to have enduring worth it must center on the art of coming to... Read more.
We No Longer Ponder the Good Life
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I cannot remember the last discussion I had about the Good Life. When we consider that this question has been one of the mainstays of Western intellectual life ... Read more.
Cheney’s “One Percent Doctrine” Comes to Public Health
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“One percent doctrine” holds that if someone high up in Washington believes that there is a one-percent chance of some foreign actor wanting to seriously ha... Read more.
Lessons from Poland: Elites and the Bonds We Forge
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Our elites remind how one false step, like the use of a politically incorrect term or an unusually piercing critique of something they have ensconced as sacred,... Read more.
Linear Time and the Art of Staying Human
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Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because humans lose touch with the problems that originally elicited in them the drive to create new things. But humans... Read more.
Eradication Fantasies Don’t Come Free
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Over the years, I have come to fear people who suggest they are above hate, and its correlates like prejudice and anger, more than I fear people who quite openl... Read more.
Resist the Powerful Old and the Insouciant Young
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We must begin to stick to our guns when both the powerful old, and the insouciant young, spring the “Agree-with-my-sound-bite-version-of-the-truth-or-be-banis... Read more.
Triumph of the ‘Mass-Man’
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The Pope cannot afford to be a mass-man, but he is one: unable to understand that his job is not to please his flock but rather to encourage them to become cons... Read more.
The Sorrows of Empire
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There is no such thing as fully objective history, and that’s for a simple reason. History is generated in narrative form, and the creation of every narrative... Read more.