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Yes, its identity is based in Christianity. But to meet today's challenges, the continent must look to the Enlightenment.
Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Haw Allensworth examine how professional licensing has become America’s most important—and most restrictive—regulatory institution.
What a case in Georgia shows about the limits to free speech in Europe.
That’s why he seems confused by his own war.
Starting shortly—Intellectual Bootcamp. Also, London pub meet TONIGHT!
Bookstack at Persuasion is delivered to you every other Sunday at 6am EST.
Kathryn Paige Harden on The Good Fight! Plus, a London pub meet.
What the country has lost since I moved here in 2007.
By over-emphasizing papers and grants, elite teaching hospitals forget what medicine should actually be about.
Contrary to popular critiques, the liberal value of equality doesn’t make you weak or nihilistic.
Everything you need to know about the buzziest and most dangerous political force of our time.
It’s misguided to ban them from moderating content as they see fit—even if we don’t like their decisions.
Yascha Mounk and Douglas Vakoch discuss whether it is morally justified to alert aliens to humanity's existence.
All seems rosy for the Democrats, but the campaign is too timid.
What I saw when I visited Shanghai.
Yascha Mounk and Alexandre Lefebvre discuss taking liberalism seriously as the main moral paradigm of our world.
Hollowing out courts while playing footsie with the cartels, Mexico’s President AMLO is leaving office, but not power.
When ordinary Russians again showed willingness to support foreign conquest.
A partial defense.
Yascha Mounk and Musa Al-Gharbi discuss why so many members of elite groups like to pretend they’re oppressed.
No, Rich Lowry did not mean to say the N-word.
The current system is broken. Here’s what truly inclusive institutions would look like.
He wants to go after political enemies, the rule of law be damned.
Yascha Mounk and Ruxandra Teslo discuss luxury beliefs and the concept of "elite misinformation."
Many people want to abolish Residential Treatment Facilities. But for some severely disabled kids, being away from home is best.
Yascha Mounk and Charles Taylor discuss the modern struggle for meaning and belonging.
Whatever happens in the election, Trump has already done damage enough to the social fabric.
It's basically free—but at the same time it's hideously expensive. What gives?
English departments teach theory, not literature.
If mainstream parties don't adapt, the far-right will keep winning.
