• The Need for Liberalism in Egypt

    The Need for Liberalism in Egypt

    Only a week ago, masses formed throughout the streets of Egypt in demonstration. It increasingly devolved into violence, with 23 dead and over 1,500 wounded in the end. However, on Monday and Tuesday, the violence ended almost altogether. On those very same streets, the masses were finally able to turn out to vote in the first election since President Hosni [...]

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  • Slight of Center

    Slight of Center

    On August 2, the day the nation’s debt ceiling deal was finally enacted, we were given yet another example of how true moderation has ceased to exist in America. The deal inexplicably ignores reality by withdrawing $1 trillion from the economy despite pallid growth rates and cutting federal benefits for the unemployed despite soaring unemployment rates.  It insists that we [...]

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  • Read Noah Millman

    Here I am again, writing about political philosophy when I should be writing about early Freudian thought…or possibly about Hindu mythology or family stories…This one is brief, though, and I only include it because I want to pass along something that deserves a really wide readership. Noah Millman of The American Scene has written some basic “notes toward a new [...]

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