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One of the best films on American history is without doubt Steven Spielberg's 2012 film “Lincoln.” I am sure most of the readers of this site have seen the film at least once, if not multiple times. Many, I am also sure, can easily recall their...
by Sinai
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on Fri Feb 16, 2024 at 02:07 PM PST
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America’s position as the sole great power within the international system has come to an end. The future of the liberal world order has become precarious. Brief History & Theoretical Concepts in International Relations The balance of power within the...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Jan 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM PST
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Today is Epiphany. It is also the third anniversary of the terrorist attack against American democracy, in which pro-Trump terrorists used violence to pressure Congress to not certify that then-...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Sat Jan 06, 2024 at 01:30 PM PST
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From This Week in Freudenfreude: Surprise! This is Naz Hassan: As you can presumably infer from the photo, she's adorable, very young (4 years old), and a big fan of Halloween. True enough. I’d call her unreasonably adorable, but all 4 year-olds are...
by Dalbert
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on Fri Nov 10, 2023 at 09:49 AM PST
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This Sunday, the Spaniards elect a new government. The tea leaves indicate the country will move to the right. In so doing, it will mirror a trend seen across much of Europe. Since WWII, the continent, at least in the West, had seen the rise of liberal...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Jul 23, 2023 at 10:52 AM PDT
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Here’s a musing for my own purposes, as a way to better clarify my thinking. Perhaps some others might find it useful or amusing. My conservative friends think I'm a liberal, my liberal friends think I’m kind of conservative. For the most part, I’m...
by dlsamson
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on Mon Jul 03, 2023 at 11:57 AM PDT
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I suspect that the success of liberalism lies in its simplicity: The idea that every person is born with an inherent right not only to live, but to flourish. The universality of this tenet is disarming. Yet it's argument is at heart consistent and...
by honestmensclub
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on Sat Jun 17, 2023 at 07:54 PM PDT
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Things are tough all over, Mr. President, AR-15 mayhem splattering the country, tent slums under freeways, judicial branch busted, despair over such slow progress with the climate crisis, hell even the techbros are getting laid off. Personally I am...
by paradox
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on Sat May 20, 2023 at 06:46 AM PDT
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This is what a national joke looks like, with its inevitable consequences: A Chinese comedy troupe has been hit with a £1.7million ($2.13 million) fine by authorities after one of its entertainers made a joke about the military. Li Haoshi, who performs...
by annieli
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 11:22 PM PDT
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I hope it is all right to introduce myself here. As you can probably tell from the name, I used to be a card-carrying Republican\conservative. I watched FOX News and went to the website religiously. I HATED with a passion that cannot be described this...
by Former Republican Who Has Seen The Light
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on Sun May 14, 2023 at 04:13 PM PDT
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What today’s free-market radicals and anti-others social reactionaries have in common is their willingness to impose their values on unwilling others – and a resulting rejection of both democracy and honest discussion in favor of authoritarian,...
by semiller48
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on Tue Jan 31, 2023 at 03:44 PM PST
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This diary may very well get me banned, but I feel it still needs to be written. I am shocked that so many ‘liberals’ are okay labeling anyone not towing the absolute ‘Kos’ line in reference to the Russia’s attack on Ukraine as a “tankie” … it seems...
by Cali58
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on Wed Oct 26, 2022 at 11:34 AM PDT
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The word "liberal" has been through a lot. Since I first came into political consciousness in the '80s, liberals have been ludicrously demonized by the right. At a certain point, I began using "progressive" instead as it seemed more contemporary and...
by Jen Sorensen
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on Tue Aug 02, 2022 at 04:50 AM PDT
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Progressives too often see ourselves as radicals or outsiders when much of what we try to do and need to do better is teaching basic civics to ignorant centrists. Encouraging basic democratic competence is not a radical leftist agenda, as the right...
by D Erasmus
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on Wed May 11, 2022 at 10:33 AM PDT
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Francis Fukuyama, the neoconservative apostate of “end of history” fame, has a new book out about the global crisis of liberalism. While Fukuyama has gotten a lot of flak for thirty years for being wrong about the end of history, he has increasingly...
by D Erasmus
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on Fri Apr 22, 2022 at 01:10 PM PDT
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We need a new model. The ills of public universities are many, and they are altogether lacking a civic mission. The Chronicle of Higher Education, the main news source for higher ed., is continually publishing articles about these things—even if they...
by D Erasmus
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on Tue Apr 19, 2022 at 02:03 PM PDT
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Most people dislike hypocrisy when they see it in others, and I will include myself in that category. I don’t like hypocrisy, and therefore I don’t want to be guilty of it. But that’s not always an easy thing to avoid, as I have learned over the years....
by EvanJellicoe
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on Mon Feb 07, 2022 at 10:09 AM PST
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Patrick J Deneen. Why Liberalism Failed. (New Haven; Yale, 2018) With the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection fast approaching, the narrative has largely focused on those who raided the capitol. Many have characterized this attack as led by...
by pastdoc
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on Tue Jan 04, 2022 at 05:10 PM PST
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Something I’ve been trying to trace back is the failure of the Democratic Party, in the late 1940s, to rebut the charge of inherent “fellow-traveling in Communism” (or, what is now called ‘communism’ by conservatives, which is akin to the catch-all...
by novapsyche
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on Sun Nov 14, 2021 at 08:12 PM PST
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A few days ago, I posted a short (“quick and dirty”) diary detailing my personal alarm about this particular moment in time. The main point was this: We need people truly devoted to the principles of self-government to be able to stand tall and be a...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Nov 02, 2021 at 05:19 PM PDT
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