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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal”: Separating Fact from Fiction

February 12, 2019 | by Christopher Soria | 0 Comments

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's "Green New Deal" has been criticized by both the left and right. But there’s no need to attack it based on something it is not. Read more

The Intellectual Dark Web: A Prelude to the Future of Dialogue

February 3, 2019 | by Jacob Kishere | 0 Comments

It is vital we create cultural conditions in which it is possible to conduct real conversations in the unprecedented context of massive online viewerships. The breakdown of democratic values is, today, lamented most vocally amongst those who trade in moralism and fight devoutly from the trenches of the culture wars. Yet, willingness to do the […] Read more

A Crisis of Trust in News Media Institutions: What the Covington Episode Can Teach Us

January 30, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

We must equip ourselves with the resources required to exercise the collective self-government that is a guiding ideal of the American political identity. Read more

The Art of Deceit: How Russia Manipulated America into Electing Donald Trump

January 12, 2019 | by Yazeed A. Bunyan | 0 Comments

Russian interference in the United States’ 2016 election follows an established pattern of electoral influence and manipulation by the Kremlin Anyone familiar with the Canadian rock band Idle Eyes would undoubtedly be familiar with their greatest hit, “Tokyo Rose.” After all, it spoke to many men out there who fell in love with a femme […] Read more

The Solution to the War On Drugs and the Addiction Crisis? The Free Market.

January 3, 2019 | by Guest Writer | 0 Comments

by Burt Walker The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure and has exacerbated the addiction crisis gripping America. Legalization offers a solution. In April 2016 my then-23-year-old daughter told me she was an addict and asked for my help. This began a journey of heartache, frustration, fear, and anger. My desperate search for information […] Read more

Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts: A Missed Opportunity To Unite Voters

December 16, 2018 | by Lysander Stephenson | 0 Comments

Trump’s corporate tax reform – arguably the most important provision in what is colloquially known as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was in retrospect very badly marketed. Intuitively, it seems highly likely that the package of corporate tax cuts alienated Trump’s supporters and thus, in turn, contributed to Republicans’ midterm losses in November. […] Read more

The Weakness of Free Speech Warriors

December 13, 2018 | by Alexander Von Sternberg | 0 Comments

Free speech warriors should stop whining, get up, and do something useful to counter censorship. This idea of free speech warrior weakness is a strange idea for me to be playing with, maybe even dangerous, since I fear that I’m edging ever closer to hypocrisy. But with the last few days’ news of Gavin McInnes […] Read more

Why So Sad? How Propagandists Use ‘Positivity’ to Keep Us in Check

December 4, 2018 | by Julie Hotard | 0 Comments

Negativity has tremendous power to persuade–which is why propagandists use the distraction of positivity to silence critics who expose them. Read more

Marc Lamont Hill’s Firing Exposes the Right’s Hypocrisy on Free Speech

December 3, 2018 | by Ralph Leonard | 0 Comments

The firing of Marc Lamont Hill demonstrates how the Right does not support free speech as much as it claims to. Read more

The Blind Spot of Race: Are the Japanese Racially Privileged?

October 20, 2018 | by Shozo Kamiya | 0 Comments

By Shozo Kamiya Considerations on the racial privileges of the Japanese shed light on the blind spot of the anti-racist literature with highly revolutionary implications. In recent literature concerning racism, the concept of “racial privilege” is increasingly adopted as an effective tool to analyse problematic social phenomena related to racism. Whilst It can certainly be […] Read more