I love these summaries of Substack articles. The N.S. Lyons article about the Ukraine invasion and its effect on the world order is long but certainly worth reading.
One of the reasons I subscribed to unherd was that both the articles and comments are on a different level. This is the perfect example of how it can be done with Niveau to raise the bar not lower it.
Yes, that was a very good article. I found quite a bit to disagree with in it but it was an enriching read nontheless.
Vilde Chaye
2 years ago
The NS Lyons article was extremely persuasive until the last part, in which he posits that “woke” has completely taken over. I would say that most corporations are paying lip service to woke, and that a change in the U.S. (and other) administrations would quickly show the woke phenomenon to be fleeting. Unfortunately, the chances of that happening now have been severely impacted by the incredibly regressive decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, giving Democrats and their leftie allies an explosive issue to galvanize around. What was a foregone conclusion a week ago: i.e. that the mid-terms would be a wipeout for the Democrats, is no longer even a sure win. Trump, whose policies I generally admired, may well regret putting arch-conservatives in control of the Supreme Court.
It wasn’t a ‘regressive’ decision; most legal opinion is that Roe v Wade was always a very poorly justified SC decision.
If people want liberal abortion laws, this should be a matter of democratic argument and scrutiny, as it has been in, say, Ireland, not essentially imposed through a legal ‘interpretation’
I love these summaries of Substack articles. The N.S. Lyons article about the Ukraine invasion and its effect on the world order is long but certainly worth reading.
One of the reasons I subscribed to unherd was that both the articles and comments are on a different level. This is the perfect example of how it can be done with Niveau to raise the bar not lower it.
I concur. It would be great if this were a regular feature.
Yes, that was a very good article. I found quite a bit to disagree with in it but it was an enriching read nontheless.
The NS Lyons article was extremely persuasive until the last part, in which he posits that “woke” has completely taken over. I would say that most corporations are paying lip service to woke, and that a change in the U.S. (and other) administrations would quickly show the woke phenomenon to be fleeting. Unfortunately, the chances of that happening now have been severely impacted by the incredibly regressive decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, giving Democrats and their leftie allies an explosive issue to galvanize around. What was a foregone conclusion a week ago: i.e. that the mid-terms would be a wipeout for the Democrats, is no longer even a sure win. Trump, whose policies I generally admired, may well regret putting arch-conservatives in control of the Supreme Court.
It wasn’t a ‘regressive’ decision; most legal opinion is that Roe v Wade was always a very poorly justified SC decision.
If people want liberal abortion laws, this should be a matter of democratic argument and scrutiny, as it has been in, say, Ireland, not essentially imposed through a legal ‘interpretation’