Benedict Wright Benedict Wright

Ascent: Solzhenitsyn’s balancing act

Solzhenitsyn lays out a shapeshifting political tool that in one moment can resist all social change citing the futile and perverse nature of human-founded politics, and yet in the next moment can defend its own political project in the name of the common good or divine authority.

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Benedict Wright Benedict Wright

On Whitman, Solidarity, and Climate

Whitman calls forth a prospect for collective action ripe for our time. No other moment has been quite so starkly literal in demanding intergenerational solidarity on a societal scale as this moment of pandemic on the precipice of climate disaster.

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Benedict Wright Benedict Wright

In Defense of Flexible Zoning

Why COS Conservatives, Liberals, Environmentalists, and Housing Advocates should be excited about Flexible Zoning and want more of it

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