In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Jesse Smith
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Over the past several years, long-standing frustration with anย increasingly radical progressive intelligentsiaย has reached a political boiling point. This is evident in GOP policymakers’ novel willingness to intervene in the operations of higher education to address perceived ideological capture. Some of these measures are constructive. For instance, my own institutional home of the Salmon P. Chase…
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The Moderate Majority: Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization, by George Hawley. De Gruyter, 2024, 184 pages, $42.99. I am not, generally speaking, an admirer of Elon Musk’s social media presence. I nonetheless confess to having been amused by an X posting of his. It featured a picture of a boy…
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In a recent post on X, progressive linguist George Lakoff declared, “The language we use in politics is not just about policy; it is about values. It is about what we care about, what we believe is important, and what kind of society we want to build.” This insight, seemingly sound and even uplifting, was immediately…