Anthony Bourdain and the World of Yesterday

I was a fan of Anthony Bourdain’s TV show, Parts Unknown. The show was an appealing…

Abortion Politics are Identity Politics

Last month, writer Kevin Williamson was fired from The Atlantic, only days after his first article, after he confirmed to The Atlantic’s editor Jeff Goldberg that he supports treating abortion like a capital crime. In Goldberg’s words, Williamson had to be…

Is there such a thing as a good gun control debate?

Identity Politics and the campus conversation

Jonathan Haidt, a professor of social psychology at the University of Virginia, has been making a name for himself as something of a public intellectual on the topic of partisanship in the last few years. Especially since the publication of his book…

Gun Control and the Progressive Soul

With Democrats in control of the U.S. House of Representatives beginning in January, we can…

Capitalism’s Character Types: the Globally Mobile Social Justice Warrior