More than a half-century ago, Noam Chomsky’s seminal essay, "The Responsibility of Intellectuals," appeared in a Feb. 23, 1967, special issue of The New York Review of Books. They will uncritically embrace and revivify the assertions expressed in the 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy documents, which can be summarized this way: We face a world characterized …
The hijab controversy, which arose from Udupi, Karnataka, looks unlikely to stop. In protest against them, at some places, boys and girls of the majority society also started reaching schools and colleges by wearing saffron patkas and scarves around their necks. The student-organisation ‘Campus Front of India’, which is mobilising support for demands like hijab and burqa in schools in …
If you're like most people, you haven't followed the twists and turns of conservative intellectual efforts to gin up a new account of American conservatism distinguishing it from Trumpism. The Reagan coalition united economic conservatives focused on "smaller government"—i.e., lower taxes and regulations—and religious conservatives intent on preserving traditional morality, which boiled down mostly to sex they don't like. Even …