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Dictionary of Ideas: Political Science around You
Good public discussion begins by clarifying fundamental ideas and values
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Zhan Qingyun: To See Politics Clearly Is Also to See Yourself Clearly Leung Man-tao: Chen Di Is Attempting an Almost Impossible Task 0. Why Is Public Discussion Always So Difficult? 1. The First Great Advocate of Free Speech Seems to Have Wanted a Divorce | Seventeenth-Century Censorship and the Dawn of Enlightenment 2. Tyrant or Mob: Which Is the Greater Threat to Liberty? | On Liberty, Part I 3. Mill: What Is Freedom For? Because Freedom Is Extremely Useful | On Liberty, Part II 4. “No One Has the Right to Falsely Shout Fire in a Theater” | The First Amendment in 1919 5. Free Speech, the Working Class's Old Friend | Class Struggle, the New Deal, and the Rise of the First Amendment 6. Free Speech Online Doesn't Look So Lovely | Echo Chambers, Attention Markets, and Weaponized Speech 7. Does Social Media Make You Less Free? | Platform Power and the Blind Spots of Online Speech 8. How Did “Political Correctness” Become an Insult? | Origins of Conservatism's Most Successful Cultural Weapon, Part I 9. How Did “Political Correctness” Become an Insult? | Origins of Conservatism's Most Successful Cultural Weapon, Part II 10. Words Shape Language, and Language Shapes Thought | Political Correctness as a Tool for Correcting Social Consciousness 11. Fighting Magic with Magic: The Fate of Every Struggle | Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination, and Political Correctness Extra | Political Correctness and Gender on International Women's Day 12. Political Correctness Is Bound to Be Difficult during a War | Culture Wars and the Never-Ending 1960s Extra | A Witch-Hunt Carnival against “Female Students and Foreigners” 13. Why Is the Chinese-Language Community So Hostile to Political Correctness? Extra | Q&A 1.0: Free Speech and Political Correctness 14. “One Is Not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman” | Translating and Defining Feminism—and Feminism as a Label 15. How Did Male Domination and Patriarchy Arise? | The World before Feminism, Part I 16. Why Did Reproductive Capacity Become a Shackle rather than a Blessing for Women? | The World before Feminism, Part II 17. How Did Patriarchy Reach Its Historical Peak under Capitalism? | The World before Feminism, Part III Extra | Suddenly Having a Younger Sibling to Care For Can Break More than Just Older Sisters 18. Feminism Begins at the Sharpest Point of Inequality | Liberal Feminism and Its First Goals 19. Work Sets People Free, Yet Working Women Remain Unfree | Socialist Feminism, Women's Labor, and the Family as Exploitation Extra | Public Debate Has Returned to Population and Childbirth… Extra | Q&A 2.0: Feminism 20. “The Personal Is Political” | Second-Wave and Radical Feminism 21. Feminism's Prolific 1970s | Representative Writers and Works of the Second Wave 22. When Women Begin to Enjoy Sex, Patriarchy Will Fight Back | Free Love, Sexual Liberation, and Authority over Women's Bodies 23. Sex-Negative Feminism, Anti-Pornography, and Alliance with Conservatism | Feminist Sex Wars, Part I 24. Sex-Positive Feminism, Critiques of Anti-Pornography, and History's Choice | Feminist Sex Wars, Part II Extra | Recent Cosmetic Procedures in Which Women Harmed Their Health 25. Sex Makes Men “More Manly,” and Rape Serves the Same End | Rape, Power, and the Curse of Masculinity through Prison Rape Extra | Q&A 3.0: Feminism 26. Is the Feminist Movement Already Past? | Postfeminism, Conservative Backlash, and an Age That Sexualizes Everything Extra | “Lying Flat” Is Already Gentle—Can't People Practice “Nonviolent Non-Diligence”? Extra | The “Village Pig and Fine Cabbage” Speech at the Intersection of Gender and Class 27. “There Are No Racial Differences Here, So There Is No Race Problem” | Race and Ethnicity in Chinese, a Shaky Conceptual Framework 28. From Anti-Judaism to Antisemitism in Christian Europe | The Origins of Western Racism, Part I 29. Before Modernity, White People Had Few Fixed Ideas about Black People | Origins of Western Racism, Part II 30. Why Did European Colonizers Focus on Enslaving Black People? | Origins of Western Racism, Part III Extra | Why Do Men Both Desire and Despise Women? Misogyny and Masculinity in Two “Alpha Male” Cases, Part I Extra | Why Do Men Both Desire and Despise Women? Misogyny and Masculinity in Two “Alpha Male” Cases, Part II 31. What Is “Scientific Racism”? How the Enlightenment Advanced Racism 32. Cultural Racism and Two Kinds of Nation-State | Race and Nation, Two Sides of a Coin, Part I 33. Ethnic Nationalism and Racism: Germany | Race and Nation, Two Sides of a Coin, Part II 34. Civic Nationalism Cannot Stop Racism: The United States | Race and Nation, Two Sides of a Coin, Part III 35. From Racism to Genocide: How Modernity Made the Nazi Holocaust Possible 36. Racism at a Turning Point | World War, a New Order, and a Changed Racial Agenda Extra | Even Discussing Scandal Requires Choosing Values: Feminist and Moralist Reactions to the Kris Wu Case 37. Is This a “Post-Racial” Age? Structural Racism and “Color-Blind” Racism 38. Nationalism: Weak as a Concept, Giant in Reality 39. Defining Nationalism: The Nation as the Highest Source of Value | What Is Nationalism? Part I 40. Nationalism's Three Themes: Autonomy, Unity, and Identity | What Is Nationalism? Part II 41. Has the Nation Existed “Since Ancient Times,” or Is It a Modern Invention? Primordialism vs. Modernism 42. Who Was the First Nationalist Thinker? Rousseau's Social Contract, Nation-Building, and Civic Nationalism 43. Nationalization, Unification, and Independence | Routes to the Nation-State, Part I 44. Were Rousseau and Herder's Nationalist Ideas Far Removed from Reality? | Routes to the Nation-State, Part II 45. In a Nation-State, Which Comes First: Nation or State? Gellner on Industrialization and Modernism Extra | Wang Fang × Zhang Zhiqi × Chen Di: The Tangshan Attack Is a Textbook Gender Issue