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May 26, 2023
Timothy Noah
Why the Debt Limit Talks Spell Doom for Kevin McCarthy
The policy outcome may prove terrible, but whatever it is, it will likely end McCarthy’s speakership in the near future.
December 6, 2022
Magazine
Matthew Sitman
Why Our Country Is Too Big Not to Fail
Maybe the United States was doomed from the start. And Jean-Jacques Rousseau can explain why.
December 26, 2019
Magazine
Win McCormack
A Rebirth of Communal Liberty?
One scholar’s quest for a modern equivalent to the General Will
December 13, 2018
Alexis Papazoglou
Just Hold Another Referendum
There's nothing democratic about forcing through a Brexit deal that voters in 2016 probably wouldn't have approved.
March 19, 2018
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Samuel Moyn
Hype for the Best
Why does Steven Pinker insist that human life is on the up?
June 22, 2012
David A. Bell
Happy Birthday to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Why the World’s First Celebrity Intellectual Still Matters
June 22, 2012
David A. Bell
Happy Birthday to Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Why the World’s First Celebrity Intellectual Still Matters
May 18, 2012
Michael Ignatieff
The Price of Everything
February 8, 2012
David A. Bell
Where Do We Come From?
November 3, 2011
David A. Bell
The Case Against Referendums: From Greece to California, They Always End Up Undermining Democracy
June 11, 2008
David Hazony
Virtually Normal
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