Carolina Review stands as a journal to champion Enlightenment thinking — the ideals which our state’s University System and our Republic have long stood to represent. By participating in multi-stakeholder efforts—some of which have been set up by think tanks and nonprofits—and considering legal approaches that emphasize transparency rather than…
Dear Readers, The long expected and well overdue day has finally come. Chapel Hill is unmasked. The longest “two weeks” of our lives are over. Although by the time I arrived at Chapel Hill the worst of Covid-19 had already passed by, I was doubtful that the pandemic policies of…
In the United States, one often hears the following rejoinder from a certain brand of center-right politician: “government should be run like a business.” Typically this just means that elected officials should be more hawk-eyed in the quest to cut waste and make government run more efficiently. It could also…
Politics is by its very nature irrational. The absurdities we all see cannot be explained by mere ignorance or differing values. Ignorance does not explain the passion and vitriol — after all, few people are highly emotional about advanced calculus; it also doesn’t explain the persistence of beliefs in the…
By: Elijah Parish To paraphrase the entire philosophy of Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci: the ruling class can’t meme. In a bit more depth, he viewed intellectual movements as being split between ruling intellectuals who perpetuate the regime and organic intellectuals who arise naturally to challenge the status quo. Ruling intellectuals…
By: Elijah Parish Take the blue pill, and you don’t leave your echo chamber. You continue to be deceived and think Rittenhouse being found innocent is yet another example of the evils of the American legal system. Take the red pill, and you realize this is one of the most…
