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November 26, 2019|China, Daryl Morey, Michael Bloomberg, Social Justice, woke capitalism

Woke Capitalism Is a Sign of Things to Come

by Matthew Continetti|

Still from “Activate,” a six-part documentary series that appeared on the National Geographic Channel.
Corporate behavior evinces the dominant beliefs of society. In China, those beliefs are not pluralistic. And that is increasingly the case in the US.

October 11, 2019|Free Markets, NBA, Social Justice, Stakeholders, woke capital

The Blowback Dividends of Woke Capitalism

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 09: A display is seen near a logo outside the NBA flagship retail store in Beijing. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The real legacy of woke capital gives shape to an outrage style in politics, one that ultimately threatens free markets.

September 17, 2019|Dave Chappelle, Equality, Social Justice, wokeness

Dave Chappelle and the Woke Conscience

by Titus Techera|

Still of Dave Chappelle in his Sticks and Stones (Image: Netflix).
His comedy points out that liberalism, which once respected human equality and difference, now imposes rapidly changing woke dogma in its place.

February 26, 2019|Ballroom Dancing, Cultural Appropriation, Equality, Group Rights, radicalism, Social Justice, woke capital

The Illogic of Cultural Appropriation

by Mike Rappaport|

Two Brazilian men wearing traditional native American feather headbands pose for photos at a Carnival street party in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 15, 2017 (Image: lazyllama/shutterstock.com).
Criticisms about cultural appropriation turn out to be inconsistent with essential aspects of the greatness of a free society.

November 8, 2018|Center for Constitutional Rights, pro bono, pro bono institute, Social Justice

The “Pro Bono” Hoax: Part II

by Mark Pulliam|

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The pro bono banner is calculated to deceive, even as it exemplifies the legal profession’s vanity and arrogance.

October 30, 2018|Legal Education, pro bono, Social Justice

The Pro Bono Docket and the Legal Blowhards Who Exploit It: Part I

by Mark Pulliam|

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The legal profession's pro bono obsession leads to the question, “who benefits?”

July 4, 2018|Black Lives Matter, Bret Weinstein, Eric Holder, Erica Christiakis, Free Speech, Identity Politics, Nicholas Christiakis, Social Justice, The Declaration

The Declaration and Identity Politics

by Paul Seaton|

The Declaration of Independence (Mike Flippo/Shutterstock.com).
On this July 4th, we should remember that the Declaration offers the outlines of a political morality suitable for all people, whatever their identity.

May 7, 2018|admissions standards, Equality, Harvard University, satire, Social Justice

The War on Satire, Brought to You by Social Justice Warriors

by Richard Samuelson|

Kunal Mehta/Shutterstock.com
One can be “woke” or one can be self-aware, that is, aware of man’s political nature. One cannot be both, and this puts SJW's beyond satire.

March 15, 2016|Harvard law School, Isaac Royall, Jr, Political Correctness, Slavery, Social Justice, Xi Jinping

Up in Arms About a Coat of Arms

by Theodore Dalrymple|

Harvard Law School, in abject surrender to student activists, is about to change its escutcheon because its design was derived from that of Isaac Royall, Jr., who endowed the first chair at the school. Royall’s father made the family fortune from slave plantations in the West Indies and Massachusetts, a fortune that was therefore tainted (as Balzac said that all great fortunes are).

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February 3, 2016|Centesimus Annus, Elizabeth Shaw, F.A. Hayek, Laudato Si, Michael Novak, Paul Adams, Populorum Progresso, Social Justice, Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is

Can Social Justice Be Rescued?

by James Bruce|

The book Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is isn’t what you think it is. The dust jacket of the latest from Michael Novak (with coauthors Paul Adams and Elizabeth Shaw) promises to rescue the term from “its ideological captors” by clarifying “the true meaning of social justice.”

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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