Sitemap - 2021 - Persuasion
A Race to the Bottom on Internet Censorship
🎧 Michael Ignatieff on How To Stay True to Liberal Values in Politics
The Unseen Side of “Cancel Culture”
We Need Christopher Hitchens More Than Ever
🎧 Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Importance of Due Process
The Future of Biden’s Democracy Agenda
The Collapse of Liberal Internationalism
🎧 John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
How To Keep Your Corporation Out of the Culture War
The Rise of Do-It-Yourself Religion
🎧 Garry Kasparov on Resisting Authoritarianism
We Can't Keep Taking Liberal Democracy for Granted
How Women From Different Generations Can Understand Each Other
🎧 Michael Powell on Race, Class, and Free Speech
The Rittenhouse Verdict Shouldn’t Have Been a Surprise
The New Face Of France’s Far Right
More of the Same Won't Rescue Biden
🎧 Andrew Yang on Why Democrats Are in Crisis
A Very Bad Election for Progressives
🎧 Noam Chomsky on Identity Politics, Free Speech, and China
Biden Was Wrong On Afghanistan
Biden Was Right On Afghanistan
🎧 Peter Singer On How To Reduce Suffering
How We Make Real Progress on Climate Change
Why I Didn’t Apologize For That Yale Law School Email
🎧 Ross Douthat on the Trouble with Experts
Why I Oppose Removing a Statue of Thomas Jefferson
How to Make College Admissions Fair
🎧 Francis Fukuyama’s Defense of Liberalism
Commercial Interests Aren’t Enough To Save Free Speech
The Long Shot Battle to Save Hungarian Democracy
How to Fix Our Broken Relationship With COVID Math
🎧 Caitlin Flanagan on Free Speech and America’s Future
Editorial Cartooning Is in Danger
Americans, Don't Envy European Speech Codes!
🎧 Kwame Anthony Appiah: Rethinking Identity
Monomania Is Illiberal and Stupefying
Our Institutions Keep Undermining Themselves
🎧 Elizabeth Bruenig on Religion, Liberalism, and Wokeness
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions
🎧 Why Americans Fight Over History
The Perils of Degentrification
There's No Unified Front Against China
🎧 "You Just Won't Understand!"
🎧 Are We Too Divided to Be Patriotic?
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Justice
John McWhorter: The Neoracists
🎧 Why We Need a Sane Republican Party
🎧 How (Not) to Think About Race
When Therapists Become Activists
The Afghanistan War Was a (Partial) Success
Destruction and Hope in Portland
The Supreme Court Isn't Broken
What We Got Wrong (and Right) About COVID-19
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An Immigrant's Case for Patriotism
Inflation Won't Just Hurt the Rich
What Ever Happened to Flirting?
🎧 An Optimist’s Vision of America
The Empowering of the American Mind
🎧 James Carville on How Democrats Self-Sabotage
Democrats Can't Rely on Demographics Alone
Texas Voters Don't Want DEI in the Classroom
Twitter's Other Free Speech Problem
Five Tactics for Undermining Democracy
Don't Roll Back Due Process on Campus
🎧 Would You Wave the Magic Wand?
Six Steps to Save Global Democracy
What's Race Got to Do With It?
🎧 The Case For a Liberal Islam
Free Black Thought: A Manifesto
Who Are You to Tell That Story?
🎧 The Dangers of Bad Science and Simple Solutions
How to Get Real About Saving the Planet
No Change, Please, We're German
Britain: Land of Liberty No More
Democracy Is (Still) Worth Defending
🎧 What The West Misses About China
A Dangerous Attack on Academic Freedom
🎧 What You Miss About the World If You Only Study Students at Harvard
The Warped Vision of “Anti-Racism”
David Bromwich: Milton on Censorship
🎧 The Weaponization of Nostalgia
When the “Violence” Isn't Violent
Ian Buruma: Racism & Enlightenment
🎧 How To Understand Your Enemy
Canceled? Welcome to Our World
🎧 Why Do We Always Think We're Right?
Can Free Speech Survive the Internet?
Michael Kinsley: Against Impeachment
What The Woke Don’t Get About the Old
Navalny: Putin is a “Thieving Little Man”
Is Social Media to Blame for It All?
Race Isn’t Just Black and White
China’s Brutality Cannot Be Ignored
What the Old Don't Get About the Woke
Can We Build a More Rational World?
How Does “Brazil's Trump” Hold On?
14 Reasons that Democracy Survived
I dressed in blackface back in college. Can I atone?
🎧 How to Strengthen American Democracy
Is It Wrong to Believe in Racial Progress?
My family hates my politics. How do I respond? Fight or flight?