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Peter Schwartz

Peter Schwartz received a PhD in political philosophy from Berkeley, taught at the University of Maryland and Washington University in St. Louis, and subsequently worked as the Politics editor for the Microsoft Encarta digital encyclopedia. He founded an online legal news and data company called Knowledge Mosaic which was purchased by LexisNexis in 2012. His work has been published in Political Theory, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, The Nation, The New Republic, the Chicago Tribune and other outlets.

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Archive, Election 2024, Israel-Palestine, Politics/LawOctober 23, 2023

‘Spooky Action’ of Quantum Physics Offers an Alternative Frame for War in the Middle East and the 2024 Election

By Peter Schwartz

By now you’ve read about Hamas’s attack and Israel’s ferocious response, all of which has…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Media Analysis, OMFG, Politics/LawMarch 29, 2023

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

First Things describes itself as “America’s most influential journal of religion and public life.” You might…

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(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeFebruary 13, 2023

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

Upon the recent death of the conservative British historian Paul Johnson, the right-wing journal Public…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/LawJanuary 17, 2023

The Key to Understanding the Federalist Society Isn’t Originalism — It’s This 800-Year Old Tradition

By Peter Schwartz

In the amicus brief he submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of the state…

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