Politics
The Case for Binationalism
Palestine should be transformed into a secular state—a constitutional-liberal state, with Arabs and Jews as its national citizens.
The Search for New Voting Technology
America’s voting technologies are gravely inefficient, but solutions are less complicated than many politicians have indicated.
Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?
Emerging technologies increase people’s ability to wall themselves off from topics and opinions that they would prefer to avoid, creating serious dangers.
Beyond the Civil Rights Industry
Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.
No Revolution Without Counterrevolution
On Arno Mayer’s The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions.
The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker tell two hundred years of Atlantic history through the everyday struggles of working people.
Ethics and Equality
Egalitarianism must be understood as part of a more encompassing view of how best to live.
The Liberal Intelligence
Lionel Trilling was not a neoconservative. He was the very best kind of liberal.
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