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The Liberal Backbone, Chapter 2: Why Nothing Makes Sense
(Also available at Substack.) As I said in the previous chapter, liberals can be proud of being open to multiple opinions. But sometimes openness can look like emptiness, as if you stand for nothing at all. It’s hard to stand for something if you’re not even sure what that something is. And many liberals have…
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To a Friend Planning to Vote for Trump
Listen to this episode with Apple Podcasts or any podcast app, at YouTube, or here. In a democracy, in normal times, we should try very hard to keep politics and…
Mike Madrid on The Latino Century
According to Mike Madrid, the United States is entering a Latino century, and that might be what saves our democracy.
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Confused About the Gaza Protests? This May Be Why.
Much of the confusion about the campus Gaza protests, and about many other issues, can be traced to a basic conceptual mistake made a long time ago. That’s the assumption that all political opinions can fit on a single, imaginary line, from left to right.
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Can we remember how to be free?
As we risk obliviously repeating catastrophic mistakes others have already made, some thoughts hear about memory and freedom, from people who know…
Mike Madrid & Zach Friend on Election ’24
https://youtu.be/MIK1SJKqRwU Podcast version: Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any podcast app, or right here: If you wanted to,…