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Hahn demonstrated clearly that modern liberalism had to survive in a fraught political culture,
one where liberal values were hard to secure and often barely survived.
Our national history has been much more layered and complex than Hofstadter’s generation understood.
There has been no “American Political Tradition.” There are multiple traditions, each with strong roots in the polity.
Still, the fact that liberalism has been fiercely contested doesn’t mean it has not …

The Illiberalism at America’s Core
A new history argues that illiberalism is not a backlash but a central feature from the founding to today.

Reading one of those monographs that, though close to my interests in terms of subject, period and, indeed, politics, I desperately want to chuck across the room. Whether it's Marxism, liberalism, or nationalism, a methodology aimed primarily at upholding (even in a modified form) a given ideology isn't history. I don't care how many footnotes* you have.
*In this particular book, as is often the case, the vast majority of references are to studies, most often theoretical, n…

The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life | Portside
https://portside.org/2024-03-28/great-rupture-american-jewish-life

The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life
For the last decade or so, an ideological tremor has been unsettling American Jewish life. Since Oct. 7, it has become an earthquake. It concerns the relationship between liberalism and Zionism, two creeds that for more than half a century have defined American Jewish identity. In the years to come, American Jews will face growing pressure to choose between them.

💣 Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
#russia

Boris Kagarlitsky: The Hobbesian World of “Multipolarity”
Russian political prisoner Boris Kagarlitsky writes in Jacobin from his jail cell at Zelenograd SIZO-12. He discusses the need for an alternative to the “individualist logic of modern liberalism and the totalitarian aggressiveness of the new conservatism.”

digressionsimpressions’s Substack || Cofnas and Post-Liberalism
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/cofnas-and-post-liberalism

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02132 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Quantum-Mechanical Modelling of Asymmetric Opinion Polarisation in Social Networks
We propose a quantum-mechanical model that represents a human system of beliefs as quantised energy levels of a physical system. This model underscores a novel perspective on opinion dynamics, recreating a broad range of experimental and real-world data that exhibit an asymmetry of opinion radicalisation. In particular, the model demonstrates the phenomena of pronounced conservatism versus mild liberalism when individuals are exposed to opposing views, mirroring recent findings on opinion polar…

digressionsimpressions’s Substack || On the Crisis of Liberalism (IX); the housing accessibility shortage.
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/on-the-crisis-of-liberalism-ix-the

we should exile Friedmanian liberalism

California : A land of flaming liberalism?
Senate primary results contradict state stereotype
By choosing Adam #Schiff, a Burbank congressman who is the most moderate of the major Democratic candidates — and thus most Feinstein-like — voters passed up the two more liberal alternatives, Reps. Katie #Porter of I…

Schiff and familiarity win California's marquee Senate race
By choosing Schiff over his fellow Democrats, voters rejected the leftward swerve promised by more liberal alternatives. By advancing Steve Garvey to November, they set up a conventional partisan runoff

digressionsimpressions’s Substack || The Sooty Empiric's Suspicions of Liberalism reconsidered.
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/p/the-sooty-empirics-suspicions-of

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16281 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

A "Perspectival" Mirror of the Elephant: Investigating Language Bias on Google, ChatGPT, YouTube, and Wikipedia
Contrary to Google Search's mission of delivering information from "many angles so you can form your own understanding of the world," we find that Google and its most prominent returned results - Wikipedia and YouTube - simply reflect a narrow set of culturally dominant views tied to the search language for complex topics like "Buddhism," "Liberalism," "colonization," "Iran" and "America." Simply stated, they present, to varying degrees, distinct information across the same search in different …