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The Cult of Personal Responsibility Is Killing Us

I've been a little less productive than usual – missed deadlines, delayed email responses, it's unlike me. It's not just parenting small children in a pandemic (although it's definitely partly that) or anxiety borne of being very knowledgeable about climate change as it begins to have a very noticeable impact all

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The Contract Aug 17, 2021 • 8 min read

Towards an Understanding of the Libertarian Take on Civil Rights

The intellectual progeny of Clarence Thomas have been trying to reframe civil rights for decades. So, I think I mentioned last time that I would be reading a wide variety of books in an effort to understand how various ideas about America’s social contract was shaped. For a different

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The Contract Jul 14, 2021 • 10 min read

Selfishness Isn't Freedom

America needs a new social contractWe've heard a lot from politicians and pundits in recent years about what sort of society Americans ought to be striving for, which rights and freedoms matter, what is tearing at the country's social fabric and what might repair it. Meanwhile, evidence abounds that whatever

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The Contract Apr 7, 2021 • 4 min read
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