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Resist Tyranny, Read Dangerously

Electric Literature
Azar Nafisi on how bearing witness to the world through literature can be a form of activism.
33 months ago

While Marijuana Will Soon be Rescheduled, the Federal Government’s Drug Scheduling System Remains Tyrannical

Vanderbilt Law School
Drug Law expert Robert Mikos advocates for a new approach as marijuana is poised to be rescheduled by DEA.
3 months ago

Preventing "The Tyranny of the Majority"

The Heritage Foundation
The Founders were determined to forestall the inherent dangers of what James Madison called “the tyranny of the majority.” So they constructed something more...
81 months ago

The Tyranny of the Tale

The New Yorker
Parul Sehgal considers “Seduced by Story,” by Peter Brooks; “Storytelling,” by Christian Salmon; and “The Story Paradox,” by Jonathan...
17 months ago

The Tyranny Of Time

Noema Magazine
The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true...
42 months ago

Tyranny in American Political Discourse

The Imaginative Conservative
Some have defined tyranny to be identical with monarchy; others identify it with any form of government which is not democratic, or at least republican.
43 months ago

‘Freedom will triumph over tyranny’: Biden’s first State of the Union echoes themes from the Cold War

The Conversation
Biden tapped into themes of unity – both among Americans and with Western allies – while warning Russian President Vladimir Putin that he...
33 months ago

The myth of meritocracy, according to Michael Sandel

Harvard Gazette
Not merely self-deluding, Michael Sandel argues in excerpt from new book, it also fuels our divisiveness. Excerpted from “Tyranny of Merit:...
47 months ago

The Tyranny of Equal Opportunity – Theodore Dalrymple

Law & Liberty
The formal equality of opportunity that we already have is the only form of it that is not inherently tyrannical.
7 months ago

A group of political ‘assassins’ is quietly threatening American democracy, a new book says

CNN
A new book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, argues that America's Founding Fathers created a now-outdated...
12 months ago