Liberalism

Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. - George Carlin “The End of History” is the term coined by political scientist Francis Fukuyama in his 1989 essay of the same name (though phrased as a question; The End of History?), in which, with the prediction that…

In the wake of WWII social scientists tried to make sense of something that most people would have considered unthinkable, the horrors of the holocaust. Most people would think of high-ranking Nazi officers, say a commander of a concentration camp as moral monsters. However, this turned out to be an…

Our Speaking Freely series contains quotes from prominent individuals of the past and present which speak to issues and promote equality of rights before the law. Each quote is part of mosaic which, when seen as a whole, presents the humane values of classical liberalism: individualism, depoliticized markets, equality of…

How Wokeness Misdirected the Desire for Social Justice — Welcome to TaraElla Report Post Woke, where we consciously aim to move beyond the woke vs anti-woke culture wars, and towards a post-woke model of culture and politics. I believe that, to truly move beyond wokeness, we need to understand where it went wrong. In my mind, the main…

Like many young progressives whose parents came from another country, I have a complicated relationship with my homeland — the United States of America. My parents came here as refugees from South Vietnam. I saw what they fled from. The human rights abuses and lack of political freedoms we see…

At 130 million years old, Borneo’s jungle’s one of earth’s oldest and richest jungles. It hosts over 15,000 different plants, 200 land animals, and 400 birds. If you’ve ever had the chance to trek through these jungles, it’s off-the-charts bursting with life. But that vitality isn’t simply a by-product of…

A Difficult Choice? What is the most advanced creation that humanity has brought forward? Could it be the most advanced airplanes, ships, or pieces of machinery that have been created? Or should we name space rockets, the International Space Station, or some submarine technology the most advanced? …

America is falling to Christian fascists. — On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion. Within minutes, abortion became illegal in over half of the states due to trigger laws written in by Christian nationalist Republicans decades previous; should their victory ever be realized. …

The recent Dobbs decision is, without doubt, the greatest civil rights tragedy of my lifetime. Tens of thousands of women will be forced into motherhood against their will. They will be forced to have their bodies changed against their will. They will be forced into the unknowable psychological strain of…