In 1989, Francis Fukuyama suggested that history had reached its end, not because events would cease, but because humanity had supposedly resolved its deepest political question: how to live. Liberal democracy, he argued, met the human demand for recognition (what the Greeks called thymos) more fully than any rival. After the fall of communism, politics […]
Tag: ideology
Free Speech is Under Attack
The Problem: Censorship in higher education In March 2023, Kyle Duncan, a conservative federal judge, was invited to speak at Stanford Law School. He was met by hundreds of student protestors, who gathered outside the classroom where his talk was scheduled to brandish signs and hurl insults at Duncan. One student shouted: “We hope your […]
Playing Politics in America’s Pacific Territories
During the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) declared that America’s tax dollars should no longer be sent to “China, Russia, the Middle East, Guam – whatever, wherever.” However Guam, unlike the other places mentioned in her list, is fully American. For better or for worse, Guam’s American identity is […]
The Party Heuristics of Color
Back in November 2016, I was talking to a foreign family member about the results of the American election, when out of nowhere they exclaimed that Hillary Clinton won since the map was mostly red. Here I had to pause and do a double-take: Donald Trump had won, with the red Republican party. While they […]