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October 2023

Candidates Should Treat Voters Like Grown-Ups
When we’ve lost faith in the ability of voters to engage in political debates, then what we’ve really lost faith in is free government.
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September 2023

Self Respect From 30,000 Feet
A brief essay.
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August 2023

On Market Morality
Further diagnosing the market morality of our time.
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Young People Need a New Framework for Navigating Their Lives
It’s a familiar story: a 21- or 22-year old prepares to graduate college. They probably participated in extracurriculars, explored their interests on…
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July 2023

Wes Anderson; local journalism
Local news is due for a revival, and Max is all of us.
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Artificial intelligence and productive tensions
Freedom, bureaucracy, and civilizational decline.
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May 2023

Washington’s Lessons in Democratic Statesmanship
Connecting theory to practice, and the spirit of the moment to lasting principles.
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March 2023

Why "the humanities" really matter
Why should we be spending money on reading Shakespeare?
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January 2023

2022 in books
I got into reading this past year, among other things
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August 2022

Few great monuments
What Tocqueville can teach us about political language and crisis in a democracy
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Beyond Plato's cave
Moving from topography to navigation
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