Susan Neiman is right to challenge the excesses of identity politics—but wrong to treat them as an alien intrusion. The ideas behind today’s politics of identity grew from within the Left itself, raising a deeper question about whether it can escape the intellectual path that led it here.
Rousseau sought to liberate humanity by restoring it to an original innocence. Woke culture pursues a remarkably similar objective through what it calls the deconstruction of inherited civilization.
From St. Augustine to the California missions and the American Revolution, Spain played a formative role in shaping the history, culture, and institutions of the future United States.
Hungary has faced challenges that resonate with current concerns in Chile: public security, migration control, social cohesion, and the tension between national sovereignty and supranational dynamics.
