Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In Philip Bump’s March 13 online column, “A quarter-century ago, we ...
The past few years haven't been kind to foreign policy idealism--the belief that when authoritarian states mistreat their own people, it is a matter of concern for all of us. We idealists can largely ...
Neo- is a prefix that derives from the Greek adjective veos–”new” or “fresh”–and in theory it is used inexactly for those conservatives who once were not–or for those who have reinterpreted ...
A new biography of Aaron Swartz tells the story of the ongoing fight between open-data philosophy and the federal government. Calling someone—or oneself—an idealist is not always a compliment. It ...
America is the reluctant sheriff of a wild world that sometimes seems mired in wrongdoing. The UN has nothing to offer in the way of enforcing laws and dispensing justice, other than spouting pious ...
In her preface to For the New Intellectual, Ayn Rand writes: "I am often asked whether I am primarily a novelist or a philosopher. The answer is: both." All novelists are philosophers to some degree; ...
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith When we we talk about ...
Americans are sickened of an “idealism that is oblique, confusing, dishonest, and ferocious,” as H.L. Mencken wrote a hundred years ago. Though Mencken was condemning President Woodrow Wilson, the ...
The votes have been cast, and a vaccine is on the horizon. We now find ourselves in the twilight days of Donald Trump’s presidency and perhaps “the end of the beginning” or maybe even “the beginning ...
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