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The Identity Trap
Yascha Mounk gives a history of the ideas underlying identity politics and a story of how identity politics took over American culture, before arguing…
Apr 21, 2024
The Myth of Left and Right
Hyrum and Verlan Lewis argue that construing viewpoints as “left-wing” or “right-wing” is based on false premises, and that the left-right dichotomy…
Oct 1, 2023
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Criticism of “Cultural Appropriation” Criticism
Appiah argues that “cultural appropriation” is based on a mistaken mental model of what “culture” denotes and that there are other, better criticisms.
Jan 26, 2022
Margaret Sanger on Abortion in Her Own Words
Birth control pioneer and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger felt that abortion was “taking life” and had the explicit goal of ending the use of…
Nov 11, 2018
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