Volume XLV
Welcome back! We have a short volume for you all this week. We kick off with another Ukraine piece considering where a national identity comes from: the institution or the people? We also have a discussion on online platform policy in the UK, and a critique of online left discourse. Finally, an important piece on the efforts of Missouri Republicans to disenfranchise voters.
Articles in this Volume
A Critique of Critique
An examination of the left-wing tendency to criticize rather than support and its effects on the discourse.
Say It Out Loud: It’s the Platforms
The UK bans controversial speakers at the border but ignores the algorithms amplifying them to millions.
How Republicans are Rigging Missouri’s Congressional Maps
When Missouri joined Trump’s gerrymandering war in 2025, Democrats didn’t expect them to succeed in eliminating one of their two districts in the state. Getting a referendum vote on the 2026 midterm ballot was supposed to freeze the old maps in place. But nine months and several state court cases later, nothing has stopped the new districts from being used in the upcoming primary elections. Only a few potential lawsuits remain.
DEMOCRACY ON THE FRONTLINE
How Ukraine's fight for sovereignty, self-determination, and democracy shapes America's future and challenges rising authoritarianism