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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 1

“Progressive parties and movements used to be the parties of working people…. but in recent decades, that’s changed in a way that also parallels education.” Continue reading
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Elections and a Pragmatic Swing

I am a political pragmatist and for good reason. There is a perfect storm of historical factors that presses a pragmatic political orientation upon us. Continue reading
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Mass Society and “Public” Sexuality Part 1: Contested Moral Terrain

In our investment in Mass Society, liberal-democratic societies have skilled us at politicizing the nonpolitical. Continue reading
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Evangelicalism and Conservatism: From Doctrine Back to Disposition

If you have been paying attention, you will notice that there have been two particular examples of fragmentation that have coincided with each other, a fragmentation of the conservative movement, and a fragmenting of evangelical Christianity. In the heart of conservatism, there is a disagreement between the centrists who have complex sensitivities and more radical… Continue reading
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Contrived Individual Responsibility: the Danger of the New Conservatives

“…it is physically impossible to pick oneself up by one’s own bootstraps…” Continue reading
