Robert Tracinski, Author at Discourse

Robert Tracinski

Robert Tracinski is editor of Symposium, a journal of liberalism, and writes additional commentary at The Tracinski Letter.

Culture & Society

The New Racial Politics Is Rooted in Old Anti-Capitalism

Racial politics is the overwhelming obsession of the moment, and it often seems ...

Culture & Society

Giving a Man a Fish Spurs Record Increase in Eating for a Day

There is nothing so permanent as the temporary, so it is no surprise ...

Culture & Society

In the Culture War, Culture Is Losing

There is an old doctrine originally attributed to the medieval Catholic Church: Error ...

Ideas

Sohrab Ahmari’s Straw Man Assault on Liberalism

The liberal philosopher John Stuart Mill famously warned that “he who knows only ...

Ideas

We Need More Than the First Amendment, We Need a “Culture of Free Speech”

We are engaged right now in seemingly endless battles over free speech—yet few ...

Business & Economics

An Age-Old Hatred of Profits Drives the Campaign to Seize Vaccine Patents

Pfizer, Moderna and other companies quickly produced vaccines that are snuffing out the ...