Category: Politics

Choices in the Cupboard of Our Past

“The study of the Islamic world is no longer an exoticism and it is no longer a luxury.”

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There Is No There Here, On The Presidential Race From an Uninformed Perspective

“I used to be a political junkie. Then 2016 happened, and I realized that that life was not for me.”

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Leftism in Limbo

At first glance, it seems that the culture wars never really ended; they simply slipped out of public consciousness temporarily.

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“Fighting for Everyone”: From California to Pittsburgh, Sectoral Bargaining is Building Worker Power

A writer investigates a new thread in the fight for worker justice.

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The Military-Emotional Complex

“The French image of the typical soldier is highly unflattering: an aristocratic, lunkheaded Saint-Cyrien or an ultra-Catholic crypto-fascist.”

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Local Politics

On July 28, I attended a meeting of the Princeton mayor and council. I had been asked to come by a member of Food and Water Watch. The pro-consumer NGO wanted a student environmentalist there to show support for a proposed local fracking ban. I had never been to any such meeting, and didn’t know what to expect.

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Georgia Canon and the Blue Wave

A writer reflects on his home state’s political climate leading up to the 2020 Senate Runoff Elections.

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Freedom from Freedom

At the campaign’s end: relief.

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Ambassadors Speak

One policy lecture, in the context of them all.

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When Sustainability Isn’t Sexy

“Does the ‘look’ of sustainability, a sort of glamorous image expressed in the carefully crafted brand of environmental nonprofits, obscure all the unassuming pockets of sustainability?”

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Robert George, Polish Law, and the Obsession with Discourse

“It is fantastic that Professor George supports free speech and open discourse—his track record on that subject speaks for itself—and he is correct that this law’s criminalization of speech should be loudly condemned; however, it is not enough to defend free speech by itself.”

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A Book Review of Ted Cruz’s Thesis

I was also intrigued by what a 21-year-old Cruz had to say about the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, the focus of his thesis and, to his credit, a rarely discussed topic in the academic literature. Because it’s clear that Ted Cruz is — and always has been — a pretty smart guy.

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