political philosophy

Johnson was not an idiot. He was many things, but not an idiot. He was, in the end, a tragic...

A refusal to change tactics means defeat. Republicans refuse to change tactics. They refuse to even consider a change in...

What Tanenhaus has created is a comparison, not an analysis. But anything is better than the brain-dead analysis we've had...

The Open Source Thesis is that the values of this medium need to be incorporated into policy, that its reach...

The people who embrace this new notion of personal worth, who embrace the idea of giving their best without expectation...

So conservatives don't read Hofstadter because it's uncomfortable. Liberals don't read him because they're living in what he considers a...

Conservativism is always the same. It never has new tales to tell. It seeks to replicate the past, always. That...

Rather than arguing against what a fool believes, wise men will seize the power to reason a way out, a...

The ideals and values of the Internet, in other words, work. They're ideals, but they're not just ideals.

The essence of what must happen in our time is the replacement of the Zero Sum Game – its politics,...