Political Philosophy

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• 3/6/2022
  

  The Would-Be Czar's Dark Prophet

  by Ed Simon

  Vladimir Putin takes seriously the anti-liberal and neo-czarist philosophies of Aleksandr Dugin. Anyone who opposes his expansionist agenda must as well. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/7/2021
  

  History Won't Judge: Joan C. Scott and Passing the Buck

  by Kirsten Weld

  Poor Clio, the muse of history, has been tasked with the passing of retrospective judgments that we in the here-and-now are unwilling to make. Unfortunately, that's not how history works. 

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• SOURCE: Aeon
  8/3/2021
  

  In Praise of Possibility

  by Michele Alacevich

  Albert O. Hirschman's approach to development economics stressed the need to understand "hidden rationalities" of developing societies and use them to create change.