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Today, there’s the exclusion of conservatives from academic life. Then there’s the exclusion of working-class voices from mainstream media. Our profession didn’t used to be all coastal yuppies, but now it mostly is. Then there’s the marginalization of those with radical critiques — from say, the Marxist left and the theological right.

David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)

“Weird” doesn’t sound like much. But of all the attacks Democrats have levied against Republicans since Trump came down that escalator, this one appears to hit the hardest. Republican politicians seem taken aback by the idea that they’re outside the mainstream, by the charge that their interests and priorities are alienating to the average American... See more

Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’

La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et ra

Antoine Chollet • L'antipopulisme ou la nouvelle haine de la démocratie (French Edition)

She wrote of going to an alumnae counselor who told her, “Go back to your kitchen and stay there and make jam!”

Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

(Much later, MSNBC would obtain several pages from Trump’s 2005 income tax return showing—to the cable news channel’s chagrin—he actually paid $35 million in income taxes that year, at a rate well above that recently paid by Bernie Sanders, Mitt Romney, and Barack Obama. Yet there would be no corrections or apologies from the media for their mistak

Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote

The main tenets of liberalism are political democracy, limitations on the powers of government, the development of universal human rights, legal equality for all adult citizens, freedom of expression, respect for the value of viewpoint diversity and honest debate, respect for evidence and reason, the separation of church and state, and freedom of r

Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

When the law favors your position, identify it and return to it again and again.

Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School

The idea that minorities are less important in any sense, even when it comes to the mathematics needed to win an election, strikes at the very basis of the evangelical left and their creation myth.

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Without Parental Leave I Might Be Dead

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