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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on July 2, 2019July 8, 2019

I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live chat.

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  • Liberalism

Bruce Bartlett on Liberaltarianism

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 29, 2009

An excellent column from Bruce Bartlett. Some highlights: But even these metro-libertarians tend to be…

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  • Liberalism

Hansonian Cultural Politics

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 27, 2009

Robin Hanson replies to my post below on cultural externalities and harm: When I ask…

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  • Kultur

Cultural Externalities and Harm

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 26, 2009

Robin Hanson’s ongoing discussion of positional goods, signaling, and consumption externalities at the new, exclusively…

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  • Conservatism

The Caveman Roots of Liberal Democracy?

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on May 5, 2009

Stimulating thoughts from Razib (aka “David Hume”): But a dispositional conservatism serves more than a…

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  • Decency

Libertarian Ideal Theory as Silent Complicity

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 10, 2009

Steven W. Thrasher in the NY Times a couple days ago: In 1958, when my mother,…

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  • Decency

Falsity: Not a Hill Worth Dying On

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 9, 2009

If I read him right, Robert Stacy McCain’s argument for state-enforced marriage inequality (“a hill…

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  • Individualism

Classical Liberalism Is Not Colorblind

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on April 7, 2009

Jonah Golberg argued last week that there is something “unlibertarian” in pointing out, as I…

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  • Liberalism

The Lump of Liberalism Fallacy

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 2, 2009

That’s what I’m going to call the error I sense lurking beneath a lot of…

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  • Filthy Non-theoretical Politics

The Obama Budget

  • by Will Wilkinson
  • Posted on March 2, 2009

Clive Crook’s gloss is right-on: Take this budget at face value, and when Mr Obama…

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