Understanding the present by listening to the past: Walter Lippmann’s “The Public Philosophy”
One way to get beneath the surface of what's going on is to read people who were writing about issues, as they emerged rather than...
How did the Chilean left crash their referendum?
I’ve been looking for an explainer of what’s been going on in Chile and, thanks to Brad Delong for pointing it out. Of particular interest...
John Gray on Andrew Sullivan’s Dishcast
I recommend the first 15 or 20 minutes of this podcast. Defs worth the listen as John Gray explains where he comes from —...
Fighting political polarisation
From this week's Substack of mine. Thomas B. Edsall has an important writeup of research into reducing political polarisation. But to me it seems to...
Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries
Cross posted from Quillette from 16 Feb 2019, but now behind a paywall. When a conversation is not a conversation: party political discourse in the...
Journalism as a system of domination: Peter Dutton edition
https://twitter.com/abc730/status/1557673265493344259 Peter Dutton is a human being. That’s not a moral point I’m making — I’m just talking about the task of making sense of...
Should Liz Cheney be your hero?
Like me, Leslie Cannold is deeply grateful for Liz Chaney right now — you know, the way she’s speaking truth to fruitcakery. Liz Cheney is...