#Illiberalism

Virginia Heffernan

page88

A word about intellectual diversity and dissent.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/ When I was in graduate school at Harvard, I failed the oral exams on the grounds that I was too

Evil (Political) Scientist

knrd_z

[Political] Science has spoken! America staggers toward authoritarianism. But not just the US, the GOP specifically. Nor is this some wacky Woke think-piece. It’s hard data, numbers, math.Do you believe

Shadi Hamid

shadihamid

This is a brilliant, detailed piece by @EmilyYoffe on what "cancel culture," increasingly a misnomer, actually means in practice—self-censorship, safetyism, contamination by association, narrowing of Overton WindowIncludes some

😷 Will Gervais 😷

wgervais

Gives Shits, Not FucksTheir research is dope. But they wont jam it down your throat. They call out toxicity, even among in group elites. Apparent shitposts are actually evidence-based eviscerations.

Glenn Greenwald

ggreenwald

My Resignation From The InterceptThe same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my

Seth Cotlar

SethCotlar

The "center" of American politics is not a fixed point, it shifts over time. What is "the center" today would have been considered pretty far left in the 1990s. Likewise,

Ian Millhiser

imillhiser

1) A quick thread on the debt of gratitude that liberalism -- by which I mean society governed by universal rights, political equality, and the rule of law -- owes

Evan Smith

evanishistory

I see that there have been some viral tweets about the National Front's 1970 policies being similar to the current Tory govt. I would hasten to add that the viral

T. Greer

Scholars_Stage

New Essay: The Forgotten U.N. Intervention to Build Democracy in Cambodia https://palladiummag.com/2021/01/20/the-forgotten-un-intervention-to-build-democracy-in-cambodia/Or as I might have titled it: "The first failure of the liberal,

Alex Howard

digiphile

Journalism schools should teach this article as a egregious example of false equivalence in an age of asymmetric polarization. The reporter & editors do not provide sufficient context nor verification

😷 Will Gervais 😷

wgervais

The Varieties of Twitter Academics1/? The Trendchaser.Something big just happened in the world? They’ve already got a preprint about how their underspecified pet theory about Last Year’s Thing is *also*

A.Z. Foreman

azforeman

People hate to hear it but no, Trump is not a fascist. No major historian of classical fascism who has been asked by reporters if Trump is a fascist has

Alex Howard

digiphile

"In Nambia, the President compared a lawful whistleblower to a spy, & called for the person who told Congress about his abuses of power & efforts to cover them up

Pavel Havlicek

Pavel_Havlicek_

#THREAD: Busy past week in Russia and its consequences for the relations with the #EU:- A wave of repressions in #Russia,- Two trials against @navalny, - Unsuccessful visit of @JosepBorrellF

Sergey Radchenko

DrRadchenko

Okay, time for a thread on @McFaul's very significant contribution, an article on Putin and Putinism in @Journal_IS: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00390. The article is in the open access for now, so be

Alex Howard

digiphile

The @FBI found no intelligence indicating 'Antifa' was involved in Sunday’s violence, per @kenklippenstein: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/antifa-trump-fbi/ Reminder: Director Wray told Congress the FBI views 'Anti

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