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Time, March 26, 2006
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
According to Rothbard, complete gridlock is the best one can hope for in Washington. A paralyzed government was fairly close to his anarchist ideal. In this vein, political insanity is not a bug; it’s a feature,
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Democratic erosion coincides with shortage of democratic practice when social life migrates online.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Along with his partner and co-author Chantal Mouffe, he provided one of the earliest foundations for what would become identity politics. In their 1985 work Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
Even the massive political polarization we’re currently witnessing is an expression of algorithm-driven conformity,
Byrne Hobart • Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
Here Kelly was borrowing a classic leftist technique: the demand for disavowal. If a given politician or a given political stance attracts the “wrong” type of audience, it’s presented as “problematic” on its face. This is the sophisticated version of saying the utterly unsophisticated “If he’s fer it, I’m agin’ it.” In a democracy every person’s vo
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