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More ironic still is the populist Right’s appropriation of postmodernist arguments and its embrace of the philosophical repudiation of objectivity—schools of thought affiliated for decades with the Left

Don’t be fancy—be effective.

To be global is to be Americanized, and to be American is to be globalized. This victory is all the patriotism that meritocrats need.

is the best of times for thought leaders. It is the worst of times for public intellectuals,” declares Daniel Drezner, a foreign policy scholar,

Liberals suffer incurably from naïveté, the stupidity of the good heart.

Effectively, there is no democracy without such an unconditional symmetry in the rights to express yourself, and the gravest threat is the slippery slope in the attempts to limit speech on grounds that some of it may hurt some people’s feelings. Such restrictions do not necessarily come from the state itself, rather from the forceful establishment

and three to five points you MUST make to support it.

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