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Books We Loved Reading in 2023

A Note from Yascha: Thank You

Branko Milanovic on Globalization

Universities Are Drawing The Wrong Lessons From The Capitol Hill Hearing

Banning Hate Speech Is The Wrong Response to Ireland’s Riots

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Why America Need Not Turn Every Country Into A Democracy

Mary Harrington on Feminism

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We Need To Protect Election Workers

What Justice Requires in Gaza

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China’s Rising Anti-Semitism

Philip Pettit on What It Means to Be Free

Say No To Police Profanity

What the Algorithm Does to Young Girls

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The Forgotten Dispute that Could Ignite a War in South America

Tara Isabella Burton on the Myth of Self-Creation

Amanda Knox on the Harms of Public Shaming

All COPs are Bastards

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The Trouble with “Bidenomics”

Tim Urban on Everything

The Crisis in Medicine: A Provocation

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The New Antisemitism

Bethany Allen on How China Abuses its Economic Might

Argentinians Pick Their Poison

Making Race Skin Deep

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The Lights Are On But There Is No One Home

Robert Sapolsky on Free Will

My Journey Out of Internalized Homophobia

Ukraine Is Not A “Frozen” War

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Where Have All The Democrats Gone?

Anshel Pfeffer on Israel and the War in the Middle East

When “Liberty” Means Censorship

Free Speech Defenders Must Be Consistent

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The Radicalization of the American Mind

David Brooks on Knowing Others (and Ourselves)

Why I Just Quit Democratic Socialists of America

The MAGAfication of the GOP is Complete

The Case for University Silence

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What “Latino” Misses

Jonathan Rauch on Why Many People Are Unhappy in Middle Age (and How Life Gets Better After Fifty)

A Brighter Future for Poland

Israel’s 9/11

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The Deep Roots of the Left’s Deafening Silence on Hamas

Terror and Tragedy in the Middle East

Misreading China

This Was Never Supposed to Happen

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Three Targets for Welfare Reform

Escaping a Massacre

Angus Deaton on America’s Deaths of Despair

The Democratic Duty

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The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other

Take A Position, Not A Side

Yascha Mounk on The Identity Trap

The Eerie Normality of Life in Kyiv

The Persuasion Festival: 2023

A New Cohort of Transgender Kids

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Two Cheers for the French Revolution

Have You Read the Identity Trap? Then Start Here.

David Axelrod on 2024

What Lockdown Did to Africa

Bring Back Countervailing Power

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India Eyes a New Identity

Rory Stewart on How Not to Be a Politician

Donald Trump’s Politics of the Berserk

Stop Denmark's New Blasphemy Ban

In Defense of the Human Brain

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The Supreme Court Isn’t Rogue

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt on the Tyranny of the Minority

A League of Their Own

Chuck Your Privilege

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Rediscovering Our Shared American Values

Leaving China

J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals

What Is Integralism?

Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions Is the Opposite of Progressive

The Lightness is Gone

Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers

Greg Lukianoff on How to Build a Culture of Free Speech

Hope for Guatemala, Redemption for the United States

Congress Asks: Are We Alone?

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The Supreme Court Case That Exemplifies Our Culture War Blindness

Sohrab Ahmari on Post-Liberalism

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America Has a Cruelty Problem

Keep Politics Out of Academic Hiring

Don't Give Up on the Dream of a Liberal Israel

Is Democracy More Resilient Than We Think?

The Madisonian Case Against Trump

Dissent In Post-Covid China

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How To Overhaul Higher Education

Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke

Humans Suck at Seeing Into the Future

How Western Europe’s Far-Right Moderated

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Slipping Past Taliban Censors

Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations

The United Nations vs Free Speech

Not Just Putin

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Obsessing Over Elite College Admissions Is the Opposite of Progressive

After Affirmative Action

Humane Liberalism Begins with Autonomy

The Dark Side of Self-Making

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Lessons From Early Advocates of Academic Freedom

Michael Walzer on Liberalism and its Critics

The Case Against Longtermism

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The Case For Effective Altruism

The Best of Persuasion: 2023

Tim Mak on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive

Burn Down the Admissions System

How Not To Cancel Russia

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Putin Is More Dangerous than Ever

Michael Lind Makes the Case for Economic Populism

The Case Against Banning TikTok

Why We Are In Ukraine

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A Trump Pardon Won’t Save Us

Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder on Fighting Illiberalism, Right and Left

Guilty Until Proven Innocent in Ireland

Jack Smith Changed My Mind On Prosecuting Trump

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Much Of America’s Political Divide Is An Illusion

Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race

A Middle Way for Abortion

What's Happening in Florida

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The Lightness is Gone

Why Erdoğan Won

The ‘I’ in BIPOC

The Methods of Moynihan

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Jason Furman on the Future of the World Economy

The Freedom to Read

J.S. Mill vs the Post-Liberals

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Why Democratic Candidates Should Challenge Biden

Will Humanity Survive AI?

Know Your Enemies

Collective Guilt is the Most Indefensible Form of Cancel Culture

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In Turkey, the Stakes Are Just Too High

Israel’s Democratic Crisis

When Populism Succeeds

The New Right Loves the State

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Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity

William Deresiewicz on the “Excellent Sheep” of the American Elite

The Free Speech Case for Section 230

Democrats Must Renew Their Allegiance to the Working Class

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​​Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher

Ed Luce on an America—and a World—Divided

China’s Missing Million

It's Going to Be Biden

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Prisoners of the Opioid Crisis

Timothy Garton Ash on Europe, Past and Present

Why We Created Harvard’s Academic Freedom Council

Our Deep Blue Obsolescence

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25 Years for Criticizing the Kremlin

Ben Ansell on Why Politics Fail

Our Deep Blue Moment

The Left, TikTok, and the World’s Biggest Police State

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Les Misérables

Murtaza Hussain on How Immigrant and Minority Voters are Misunderstood

What's Missing From the Cultural Narrative About Gen Z

Break the Monopolies!

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How to Be Left Without Being Woke

Matthew Goodwin on Why the Last Decade of Politics Has Been So Bizarre

The Next Stage of Trumpism is Here

To Boost Democracy Abroad, Biden Needs a Real Strategy

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Why We Need a Serious Debate About Healthcare For Transgender Youth

Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

A Shoutdown at Stanford

The Wrong Way to Take Down Donald Trump

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The New York Times Is Finally Moving on From 2020

Jonathan Greenblatt on Anti-Semitism

Leaving China

Propaganda (Almost) Never Works

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The Left Case Against the "Restraint" Policy on Ukraine

Frans de Waal on Chimpanzee—and Human—Politics

The Illusion of a Frictionless Existence

Erdoğan Is In Danger

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Why So Many Elites Feel Like Losers

Matthias Matthijs on the Future of Europe

India’s Lost Opposition

The Case For (Even More) Compromise

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The War is Changing Germany

Vincent Lloyd on What Happens When “Antiracism” Goes Wrong

On War and Forgetting

Peru is a Warning

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Rachel Kleinfeld on Why America Isn’t About to Have a Civil War

The Futility of Trigger Warnings

Don’t Forget About Iran

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Rediscovering Our Shared American Values

Ro Khanna on the Progressive Case for Patriotism and Capitalism

Dark Times for Academic Freedom in the Sunshine State

The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic Began Around 2012

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The Case For Digital Minimalism

Richard Haass on Where America Went Wrong

Why I Worry About Israeli Democracy

Three Cheers For Gradualism

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Twitter Just Caved To Modi

Matt Bennett on The Democrats’ Image Problem

What Christopher Hitchens Knew

Winter in Kyiv

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The Red-Pill Pusher

Charles Kenny on the Material Progress of the Developing World

The Green Technology That Dare Not Speak Its Name

It’s Lonely in Russia

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How Evangelicals Learned to Stop Worrying...

Bart Somers on Sustaining Diverse Cities in Tough Circumstances

How to Prosecute a Former President

Don't Ban Depictions of Muhammad From the Classroom

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Reason To Believe

Tabata Amaral on Brazil’s Future

Guns Are Not Speech

What We Owe to Animals

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Reasons for Optimism in 2023