Climate Rhetoric & the Marketplace of Rationalizations
Our fate hangs on a hot war of words. But influential language hides the shape and scope of the political and resource battles being fought.…
Author: Jag Bhalla
Political Virtues: Liberalism Versus Tribalism
“Two visions of America” are locked in a “vicious, bloody, and unending” fight writes Celeste Marcus1. In her view liberalism and tribalism ceaselessly struggle “for…
Liberalism’s Failure by Fun
Liberalism can’t cope with the times. That’s the surprising position of a thinker who is not in any sense an opponent, rather he’s one of…
Does the West Have a “Right” to Better Lives Than the Rest?
Some of the rich like to see the world’s poor hurt. This sadistic stance was exposed in a rare mask-off moment at a recent climate…
Art and Our Cult of the Self
A cult of the self shapes much of our lives. Its cardinal conviction is that the self is sacred. Via its often stealthy influence, self-worship…
The Dark Origins of Optimism and its Current Cheerful Evils
A seductive but deceptively skewed school of thought has enchanted our elite. It teaches that “optimism” is essential to solving society’s problems (it comes in…