Tag: liberalism
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By an observer of the long cycle There is a story the commentariat keeps telling itself, and it is wrong. The story is that the transatlantic alliance is enduring a “rough patch” — a temporary spat between allies who will, once the current occupant of the White House leaves, return to business as usual. That…
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Why it outlasts the culture war, and why both woke left and nativist right are fighting the wrong fight You don’t need a new ideology. You need an old one, stripped of its performative excesses and returned to its quiet, boring, functional core: baseline liberalism. The idea that adults are adults – not representatives of…
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Or: How we spent a billion dollars teaching people not to say the wrong thing while the empire just kept empire-ing You ever notice how every corporation, university, and government agency now has a DEI department? Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Sounds great. Feels great. Costs a fortune. And yet, nothing really changes. The same people stay…