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A Defense of Aristocracy: On Anthony T. Kronman’s “The Assault on American Excellence”
A former dean of Yale Law School opines on the purported pitfalls of “diversity” in higher education.
Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics, is a lecturer in political science at Yale and the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (W.W. Norton, 1990) and Liberal Racism (Viking, 1997; Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Articles
Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist
What John Winthrop’s Puritans can teach us about civic culture and moral authority.
How Hollow Speech Enables Hostile Speech, and What to Do About It
Jim Sleeper considers the commercial and legal underpinnings of “hate speech.”
Henry Kissinger and the Coming Imbalance of Power
Neither Western Cold Warriors nor Russians have accepted Henry Kissinger’s “principles.” Does he himself truly believe in them?
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