Apr 27, 2022
"Is
it a higher compliment to be called a) a person of real feeling, or
b) a consistently reasonable person?" "Are you more successful at
a) following a carefully worked-out plan, or b) dealing with the
unexpected and seeing quickly what should have been done?" "Which
word in each pair appeals to you more? a)...
Apr 13, 2022
In this Citations Needed Live Interview with Luke Savage from 3/22, we discuss his upcoming collection of essays, "The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History," the abandoned hopes of the Obama era, the rise of Trumpism and the inability—or unwillingness—of Liberalism to offer a...
Apr 6, 2022
"It is safe to
say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums," wrote New York
City official Robert Moses in 1945. "Our ancestors came across the ocean in sailing ships
you wouldn't go across a lake in. When they arrived, there was
nothing here," Ross Perot proclaimed in 1996. "We proved we can
create a budding garden...