Bb5a31f81ClaimIn modern international politics, ideological battles occur within individual nations between illiberal populist nationalists and liberal democratsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn the book Democracy and Political Ignorance, legal scholar Ilya Somin argues that voter ignorance and irrationality are unavoidable features of democracyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimIn the book Against Democracy, Jason Brennan argues that most Americans are politically uninformed hobbits or tribal hooligansAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Democratic foreign policy doctrine is to prevent and deter war through military, economic, and political strengthAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimThe Democratic foreign policy doctrine states that wars of choice erode the U.S.'s strategic position and are costly to American lives and financesAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimA global struggle exists between open political systems like the US and Europe and closed systems like Russia and ChinaAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimRevisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky proposed a system where Arab and Jewish prime ministers would govern the Jewish state alternativelyAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81Claim"War democracies" are countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine that are on the front lines of the struggle for the free worldAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPhilosophers distinguish between what is genuinely possible and what is merely conceivableAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimSolipsism is a philosophical stance that only one's own mind is sure to existAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimUnlike the Boltzmann brain problem, the philosophical stance of solipsism does not come with attached equationsAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPhilosopher Charles Taylor distinguishes between a "porous self," which is open to reality, and a "buffeted self," which is sealed offAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimCharles Taylor describes the modern self as a "buffeted self" that treats life as a project to be controlled and optimizedAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPhilosophers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant were reacting to the work of Isaac NewtonAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimWendell Berry advocated for a relationship with nature akin to a marriage rather than dominationAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimWendell Berry's essays proposed that humans have a "legitimate quarrel with nature" and must remake it for survivalAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimPolitical scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote the 1992 book 'The End of History of the Last Man'AgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFrancis Fukuyama's book 'The End of History of the Last Man' argued no serious universal rival to liberal democracy and market economics remainedAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFrancis Fukuyama critiques French postmodernism for rejecting grand narratives while simultaneously adhering to the grand narrative of Marxism-LeninismAgreeDisagree
Bb5a31f81ClaimFrancis Fukuyama's conservative intellectual influences included Harvey Mansfield, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, and Samuel HuntingtonAgreeDisagree