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This post is inspired by a series of articles that Dan Williams wrote on the subject of “becoming less left-wing.” While I found that series interesting in several respects, it seemed to me unlikely to influence its presumptive audience, because most people on the left have no desire to become less left-wing, indeed they usually feel morally obliged to maintain their current political convictions,…
One of the more frustrating features of American political culture is the homeostatic mechanism that appears to exist within the Democratic party, which ensures that no matter how unpopular the Republican party becomes, the Democrats will adjust their positioning in order to remain just slightly less popular.
What science actually says about human evolution
The road to neoliberalism is paved with good intentions
...although maybe different from what they're doing
Torn between two unattractive models of human civilization
One of the more questionable trends in social justice thinking over the past decade has been the suggestion that there is something wrong with “colourblindness” as a strategy for achieving racial and ethnic integration.
It appears to be an unspoken conviction, among academics, that there is no field of study so uncool that it cannot be made at least somewhat cooler by appending the word “critical” to its title.
Consider for a moment the volume of commentary that has been dedicated to the subject of inequality – the number of articles documenting the growing chasm separating the wealth of the 1% from the rest; the number of academic papers uncovering “disparities” along every conceivable axis of human difference; the number of scholarly books written condemning global inequality, or trends in income…
Growing up in Saskatoon during the 1970s, cooperatives were a major part of our daily lives.
