Glaring and great injustice elicits glaring and great virtue - but also, alas, glaring and cheap virtue. How can you distinguish between them? I have a rule ...

Like millions of other Americans, I have strong feelings about what is going on in our country today as I ponder the death of one of my fellow citizens, Geor...

When I was 21 give or take a year or two, I heard of something called “a commonplace book”. This was essentially a notebook that was carried by Edwardian gen...

Has anyone done the math - or are we just reacting; and if we are, have we (to adulterate a fashionable expression in progressive circles) “

With freedom and representation to save, Many who cared paid them forward from their graves; To choose their own leaders, to vote, to be heard Is worth all t...

Nigel Farage is a political hero. In the books that shall be written about how the United Kingdom became again a self-determined, democratic nation, he will ...

Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin

Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many of those who profoun...

Democracy in the U.K. became defunct [when] parliament criminalized the implementation of the result of the Brexit referendum.

Imagine that I am a seafaring tyrant who has moored my galleon off a large island. Through my telescope, I see a healthy population creating wealth and impro...

It took me a couple of seconds to get Stephen Colbert’s joke line, “I don’t see race” when I first heard it. In the USA, the joke works because no one can se...

Jordan Peterson has broken the internet (again) with his Tweet that, “If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down.” Many Peterson-favoring commentators (of whom...

One of my recent articles, “The Mistake You Make in Every Political Argument” (Mistake) made the claim that most political arguments that seem to turn on a d...

We’ve all been sufficiently frustrated by the gap between the values someone espouses and the policies they support that we’ve gotten into political argument...

Most successful political insurgencies share a few common necessary conditions, which must be understood by any political outsider who wants to have a real c...

Jordan Peterson, the Canadian professor of psychology who in the last year has become North America’s most popular public intellectual, has spent many decade...

Philosophy Talks. History Walks. As a political activist and someone who trains others in “the art of political persuasion”, I teach a good deal of psycholog...

Since the #MeToo phenomenon hit, I have started asking my female friends directly about their everyday experiences with men. For example, what proportion of ...

It’s Not What You Believe. It’s How You Believe It George Orwell’s novel 1984 has been selling in large numbers to people scared of a lurch toward authoritar...

(or: Why the Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good) Margaret Thatcher once said that “politics at its purest is philosophy in action”. As someone who gave her nam...