Browsing Archive November, 2017
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Introduction to Issue #10
Herewith Issue # 10 of our little magazine, the quarterly version. As you know by now, P/L Live is our faster side. Here we run longer pieces—not slower, ...
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The Catalan Crisis and Podemos
As I file these comments on Wednesday, November 15th, the Catalan crisis is unfolding toward its next critical moment, the December 21st election of a new regional Parliament. ...
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Letter from Barcelona: To Vote or Not to Vote —That was the Referendum Question
On October 1st, at precisely 11:26 in the morning, I voted “illegally” for the first time in my life. The event in question was a unilateral referendum in ...
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The Calvert Street Boys
The second day after I landed in Baltimore, two Teach For America teachers from my new school took me for a drive past the school where I would ...
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Contested West: Identity and Citizenship in a Global Age
I always ask my students, on the first day of our Western Civilization course, “what is the West?” Here’s what they tend to tell me: that the West ...
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Coal, Guns, Freedom: Teaching Environmental Ethics to Aspiring Petroleum Engineers
Climate change is real. While the President may or may not still believe that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by China, 97% of climate scientists agree that ...
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Tate’s Queer Britain
When it comes to celebrating Pride, there’s no place like London. Even for this New York City resident, Pride in London approached unmatched sublimity through its simultaneously extensive ...
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Borders and Bolsheviks
Europe has long been a land of struggle and honey in the mind of the much-battered American left, and today Britain takes on that role. The Democratic Socialists ...
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Worlds Collide: A Play in Four Acts
Historical Note: The meeting of these minds is my creation, a fiction, but the four main characters were, in fact, contemporaries who knew and loved Rome in the ...
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Liberalism and the Left, Part 4
This is the continuation of an exchange which originated on Facebook, where Andrew Hartman noticed that James Livingston was getting agitated enough about the Left’s animus toward liberalism ...
