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We Need Liberal Social Justice, Not "Critical Social Justice"
Liberalism is a much misunderstood word.
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Helen Pluckrose
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The Case for a Free-Market Welfare State
This is a contribution to Symposium No.
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Samuel Hammond
If Everything Is “Woke,” Nothing Is
Opposition to left-wing “wokeness” is becoming, not just a successful political cause, but a bandwagon.
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Robert Tracinski
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George Will and Steven Pinker on Liberalism
Rob Tracinski brings together George Will and Steven Pinker for a conversation about the nature and foundations of political liberalism.
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Robert Tracinski
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Does Liberalism Need Identity Politics?
This is a contribution to Symposium No.
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Cathy Young
Epistemological Madisonianism
A Review of "The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth," by Jonathan Rauch
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Robert Tracinski
The Race to the Bottom
For the past few years, the left has been struggling with an internal conflict over whether the far-left culture war orthodoxy known as “wokeness” is…
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Robert Tracinski
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The Culture War We All Lose
Our current culture war sprang out of the ideological hothouses of academia, and this is where you still see it taking some of its most intense forms.
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Robert Tracinski
Why Liberals Should Care About Progress
The case for a free society is a broad integration across many subjects, including history, economics, and moral philosophy. Central to this integration…
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Jason Crawford
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Enlightenment 2.0
A Review of “Rationality,” by Steven Pinker
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Robert Tracinski
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Both Sides’ Isms
I supposed we should count this as a major victory: The New York Times editorial board has just acknowledged that we have a problem with free speech and…
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Robert Tracinski
Welcome to Symposium
Welcome to Symposium, a new publication dedicated to strengthening the intellectual foundations of a free society. Symposium is a journal of liberalism…
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Robert Tracinski
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