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recent years, Giussani noticed how elites seemed increasingly guided by lite facsimiles of change. These ideas largely exempted markets and their winners from scrutiny, despite their immense power in deciding how people’s lives were lived and their support for a system that produced extraordinary fortunes and extraordinary exclusion. These notions
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Liberalism, despite its shortcomings, is simply better for humans. As Pinker argues in Enlightenment Now, “The data show that more liberal countries are also, on average, better educated, more urban, less fecund, less inbred (with fewer marriages among cousins), more peaceful, more democratic, less corrupt, and less crime-and coup-ridden.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Meritocracy vs. majority
Mark Leonard • What Does China Think?
I showed how this moral matrix leads liberals to make two points that are (in my opinion) profoundly important for the health of a society: (1) governments can and should restrain corporate superorganisms, and (2) some big problems really can be solved by regulation. I explained how libertarians (who sacralize liberty) and social conservatives (who
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
he is one of the most important political thinkers on earth today.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
version that doesn’t assume that our opponents are intellectually or morally bankrupt.