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Building the New Case for a Moderate Politics
Why Moderates Should Stop Hiding Behind Procedure The Progressive Conservative Manifesto Why We Need to Bring Back Love and Compassion Why We Need to Call Out Free Speech Hypocrites Why Commitment to the Objective Truth is Important Why We Need to Shut Down Political Aggression Why Left-Wing Activism Still Needs to be Challenged My Case Against the Theory Left: A Restatement How to Reverse the Anti-Woke to Reactionary Pipeline
We Need to Talk About the Rise of Extremism. Seriously.
We Need to Talk About the Red Pill Fallacy Why the Left and the Right both Ultimately Lead to Chaos The Fault in the Right: Why Worthy Ideals Lead to Bad Politics Why the Critical Theory-based Model of Change is Counterproductive We Need to Develop the Philosophy to Support a Centrist Politics We Actually Have Four Major Ideologies in Competition, Rather than Two The Populist Right Destroyed Everything I Cherish The Democrats Didn’t Take ‘Freedom’ Away from the Republicans The Reactionary Rabbit Hole of Competitive Outrage How Influencers Create False Consensus to Justify Authoritarianism
Why Battle for the Soul of Libertarianism
Battle for the Soul of Libertarianism: Why we can’t cede the libertarian movement to authoritarian pretenders How the Dobbs Ruling Convinced Me to be ‘Libertarian’ Again This is How to Save Libertarianism from the Populist Right Why Allowing More Freedom is Generally the Morally Better Choice Social Libertarianism is the Only Antidote to Trumpism, Populism and Christian Nationalism What a Centrist Libertarian Program Looks Like in Practice Freedom Does Not Exist in a Vacuum: Towards a Broader Moral Libertarian Project
The Case for a Positive Politics
Towards a Politics of Meaning and Hope We need to start by acknowledging the limitations and opportunities of life What a Truly Positive Politics Looks Like The cultural hegemony of negative politics must be challenged and smashed The Role of Compassion in a Politics of Meaning and Hope It is the starting point of the comeback of positivity politics I Really Hate Dishonesty. Do You? You should, because dishonesty ruins the marketplace of ideas and makes rationality impossible From Anti-Woke to Woke Critical Why it’s time we break decisively from the negative recent past Reimagining What Progressive Means: Five Core Ideas Only a relentlessly positive vision can save us
Reconciling Libertarianism and Reformism
Reconciling Libertarianism and Reformism Libertarianism needs practicality and credibility, which is what reformism is good at The Road to Reclaiming Libertarianism and Stopping Populism We need to be practical, and emphasize moral values too What is Liberalism and Conservatism? Contrary to popular belief, they are not opposites at all. A Commitment to Reformism Would Have Saved the Intellectual Dark Web Why Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Bret Weinstein etc. ultimately failed us There is No Justice Without Free Speech If you are for practical justice, you need to take a stand against theoretical justice Why Classical Liberals Should Never Give Up on Progressive Politics The right is clearly not a good ‘home’ for us at all
The Case for a Normie Politics
The Classical Liberal Case for a Normie Politics A Normie View on Wokeness and Left-wing Politics A Normie View on Conservative and Right-Wing Politics The Theory Left is Still a Big Problem for Practical Progress If we want a more rational politics, we really need to face this problem Developing an Even More Accurate Definition of Woke It is actually very simple when you realize it