The high-level talks in Saudi Arabia last week between senior Russian and American officials have tantalizing potential to end the conflict in Ukraine. The high-level talks in Saudi Arabia last week between senior Russian and American officials have tantalizing potential to end the conflict in Ukraine. Both sides agreed that the opening negotiations were productive. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, noted that the U.S. side was in listening mode to comprehend the root causes of conflict, which, […]

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On August 31, 2023, the French Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports issued a statement titled “Respect of Republican Values” (Respect des Valeurs de la République), forbidding pupils to wear the abaya in public schools throughout the national territory. Continue Reading…

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Tweet … had an itch to trick progressives into displaying for all the world to clearly see their Everestian sense of irresponsible entitlement to other people’s money and minds, he could not have done better than to make the announcement that he made on Wednesday that the opinion page of the Post would from here on in endorse “two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” It’s astonishing how Bezos’s announcement prompted so many progressives to intellectually disrobe themselves […]

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I often see libertarians and “classical liberals” cite John Stuart Mills as an example of classical liberalism. The issue here is that John Stuart Mills was a utopian socialist who explicitly saw socialism as the successor to liberalism and in fact wrote a book on the subject (see below). Therefore I think it would not be accurate to refer to Mills as a classical liberals. The book in question: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38138/38138-h/38138-h.htm submitted by /u/DmitriBogrov [link] [comments]

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