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El escritor estadounidense Peter Frase imagina en su nueva obra, publicada en España por Blackie Books, cuatro horizontes posibles...

A new intellectual biography of Thomas Sowell leaves the most interesting questions about the man not merely unanswered but unasked.

To echo The New Yorker writer, Jelani Cobb, she has more accolades as a single person than the entire journalism department of most schools.

In 2012, the political theorist Corey Robin observed in his book The Reactionary Mind that the American right was “trying to find a winning formula.” The problem was that conservatives are “cycling through all these ideas, faster and faster, and they’re running out of options.” Ten years later, we see the terrifying consequences when one of America’s two major parties, having in fact run out of ideas, risks running our democracy to ruin. Advertisement As they seek a path forward, American conservatives might consider an option they probably did not know was on offer: the writings...

The Political Economy of Fear — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince , 1513 All animals experience fear—human beings, perhaps, most of all. Any animal incapable of fear would have been hard pressed to survive, regardless of its size, speed, or other attributes. Fear alerts us to dangers that threaten our well-being and sometimes our very lives. Sensing fear, we respond by running away, by hiding, or by preparing to ward off the danger. To disregard fear is to place ourselves in possibly mortal jeopardy. Even the man who acts heroically on the battlefield, if he is honest, admits that he is s...