#Liberalism

Michael McFaul

McFaul

Unlike Mr. Garnaut, Im not an expert on Xi Jinping thinking or his secret plotting to rule the world. So I can only judge the Xi vs Stalin analogy by

Andy Craig

AndrewRCraig

Unironically talking about Moldbug’s “the Cathedral” is a dead giveaway that somebody is nearer the far end of the paleolibertarian to alt-right pipeline. It’s something socialists and fascists and illiberals

Don Robotham

dondee_don

Congrats on a successful session. Some thoughts of an outsider: The stress on local agency in the creation of Nigeria is absolutely crucial as is the point about emphasizing the

Dr. Ellie Lockhart is the protagonist

BootlegGirl

OK, so I have a smoking hot take and I guess now is the time to drop it if I ever will. This is not directly in reference to the

JOMAozedong

aozedong

As someone who had organized for about ten years now, I thought I'd offer some tips and tricks for running an org smoothly, building one properly, or what have you,

Traditionalist

HinduTrad

( THREAD )Hinduism vs Abrahmic Cults : A case of victim crying.Many people keep asking the question that why can't Hindus do propaganda in their favour instead of just being

Lisa Bildy

LDBildy

And some of us in law (but not many) have been worried since March about whether we can call ourselves a free society any longer. The longer this goes on,

Pete Pischke

HappyWarriorP

If Conservatism isn't about conserving American Classical Liberalism what the fetch is it conserving If it's about power and not liberty than Im outCuz that's just Progressive lite and that's

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radicaltheory

“the liberal tries to become an arbitrator, but he is incapable of solving the problems. he promises the oppressor that he can keep the oppressed under control; that he will

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

Most of the Bad Political Takes I see are generalizing from powerful prestige institutions becoming more ideologically uniform that the rest of the culture is, too. It's pretty coherent for

Erik Torenberg

eriktorenberg

Here are some of the most interesting books that changed my mind in 2020:Thread Peter Turchin tries to quantify history in "secular cycles" using demographic data.TLDR: As population expands, wages

Rhys Taylor 🔶

syhrtaylor

Okay.UBI is no less 'fantasy' than the NHS was or universal education was.UBI wouldn't replace social security. You maintain housing and health/disability payments, plus UBI.Higher earners would pay back through

Rod Graham

roderickgraham

This is a thread about the link between values and knowledge production.I have values (A) and as a scholar, evidence (B). When A and B contradict, I follow A. What

Marijn Sax

MarijnSax

After handing in my PhD, I started working as a postdoc on a project on news diversity and algorithmic news recommenders. Over the past few months, I’ve been exploring this

Kalina Chung, Über lesbian

kalina_chung

There's a lot of dimensions to the "queer is a slur" stance that is ignorant of or propagating a lot of bad faith misinformation about what the term and community

AQ

Evollaqi

I suspect Ash'arism might be more compatible with pluralism than, say, Mu'tazilism, Catholicism, and many strains of secular liberalism – and might explain why historically Muslim societies were often more

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