Excerpt from the book What Left and Right Mean What are the Far left and Far right? The simple answer is to say that they are extremes of the left and the right, but that is inadequate. There are individuals […]
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New Book: What Left and Right Mean
What Left and Right Mean: Clarifying the Political Spectrum Understanding the political spectrum and what motivates political actions have never been so vital. Politics is complex, and many political conflicts have considerable effects on our lives. We are all so […]
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What Is Political Philosophy?
Video Lecture. Click to watch. Text Transcript below: What is Political Philosophy? The point I’m trying to make here is that when we talk about political philosophy is that we strangely aren’t talking about Politics. Politics we all have a […]
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What IS America? A Philosophical Look at Being American
What IS America? What does it mean to be American? I ask these questions on July Fourth, a day when the United States commemorates its independence. That date and commemoration in itself is significant in it not being entirely true. […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 5: What Is Liberalism?
Part 5 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 4: What Is Conservatism? —– The Two “Liberals” […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 4: What Is Conservatism?
Part 4 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 5: What Is Liberalism? —– We have seen […]
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The Political Spectrum — Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right
Part 3 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 2: The Fake Axis Part 4: What Is Conservatism? Part 5: What Is Liberalism? In Part 1, I began to demythologize the […]
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The Political Spectrum - Part 2: The Fake Axis
Part 2 in my series on rethinking the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean Part 3: The Fake Left and the Reactionary Right Part 4: What Is Conservatism? Part 5: What Is Liberalism? —– The traditional conception […]
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The Political Spectrum - Part 1: What “Left” and “Right” Mean
Reclaiming terms that have become empty rhetoric. In my hopefully not fruitless attempt to bring serious philosophy to this site, this is the first in five articles on rethinking the concepts of the political spectrum. Part 1: What “Left” and […]
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Can War Ever Be Justified?
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine brings up a vexing philosophical question: when is war morally defensible? A small but ancient part of political philosophy is known as “just war theory.” There are two aspects to just war theory. One explores the […]
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