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Mistaking Identity

From Liberalism and Its Discontents, which will be published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Modern democracies are facing a deep cognitive crisis. For many years now, societies have…

Campaign Literature

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

From a certain angle, Donald Trump’s presidency may not have moved the United States in entirely the wrong direction. One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the…

Shades of Blue

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Late on election night, when the betting markets were just realizing that Trump’s path to victory had narrowed, and leading voices on the left were lamenting the failure of anything…

Nonconforming

by Laurent Dubreuil,

Against the erosion of academic freedom by identity politics

Whiteout

by Kevin Baker,

This past spring and summer, political correctness—perhaps inevitably—took a full turn and became a campaign to erase the worst things that dead white men have done in our history. This…

Political Correction

by Osita Nwanevu,

By Osita Nwanevu. Nwanevu is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago and the editor of the South Side Weekly.

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