Alan Bloom's book, 'The Closing of the American Mind,' addressed the decline of liberal education

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In modern international politics, ideological battles occur within individual nations between illiberal populist nationalists and liberal democrats

In the book Democracy and Political Ignorance, legal scholar Ilya Somin argues that voter ignorance and irrationality are unavoidable features of democracy

In the book Against Democracy, Jason Brennan argues that most Americans are politically uninformed hobbits or tribal hooligans

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine is to prevent and deter war through military, economic, and political strength

The Democratic foreign policy doctrine states that wars of choice erode the U.S.'s strategic position and are costly to American lives and finances

A global struggle exists between open political systems like the US and Europe and closed systems like Russia and China

Revisionist Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky proposed a system where Arab and Jewish prime ministers would govern the Jewish state alternatively

"War democracies" are countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Ukraine that are on the front lines of the struggle for the free world

Philosophers distinguish between what is genuinely possible and what is merely conceivable

Solipsism is a philosophical stance that only one's own mind is sure to exist

Unlike the Boltzmann brain problem, the philosophical stance of solipsism does not come with attached equations

Philosopher Charles Taylor distinguishes between a "porous self," which is open to reality, and a "buffeted self," which is sealed off

Charles Taylor describes the modern self as a "buffeted self" that treats life as a project to be controlled and optimized

Philosophers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant were reacting to the work of Isaac Newton

Wendell Berry advocated for a relationship with nature akin to a marriage rather than domination

Wendell Berry's essays proposed that humans have a "legitimate quarrel with nature" and must remake it for survival

Political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote the 1992 book 'The End of History of the Last Man'

Francis Fukuyama's book 'The End of History of the Last Man' argued no serious universal rival to liberal democracy and market economics remained

Francis Fukuyama critiques French postmodernism for rejecting grand narratives while simultaneously adhering to the grand narrative of Marxism-Leninism

Francis Fukuyama's conservative intellectual influences included Harvey Mansfield, Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, and Samuel Huntington