Politics

Mr Trump agreed to give up demand for Harvard to pay $200 million fine to finalize deal

President Trump backtracked this month on possible settlement with Ivy League school

Lawsuit accused Harvard of failing to produce documents sought as part of Justice Department investigation

Favorable views of Supreme Court remain near historic low

James Pethokoukis wrote "The Closed Party vs. the Open Party"

Conservatives are more likely to report larger social networks more happiness and better self-esteem than liberals

Linking biology to politics remains controversial unreplicated although evidence is growing

Subjects with conservative political views have larger amygdalae and are more prone to feeling disgust

In 1998 political author Virginia Postrel in her book The Future and Its Enemies offered another single-axis spectrum that measures views of future contrasting stasists and dynamists

These labels are preferred to loaded language of totalitarianism vs libertarianism because one can have political focus on community without being totalitarian and undemocratic

According to political philosopher Charles Blattberg in his essay Political Philosophies and Political Ideologies those who would respond to conflict with conversation should be considered on left with negotiation as in centre and with force as on right

Study of German voters found at least four dimensions were required to adequately represent all political parties

Distinction corresponds to utopian versus dystopian spectrum used in some theoretical assessments of liberalism book's title is borrowed from work of anti-utopian classic-liberal theorist Karl Popper

Council communism is political philosophy that would be counted as communitarian on this axis but is not totalitarian or undemocratic

European Union countries in continental Europe come out on top right Anglophone countries on middle right Latin American countries on bottom right African Middle Eastern and South Asian countries on bottom left and ex-Communist countries on top left when placed on chart

Jerry Pournelle created two-axis model in 1963 for doctoral dissertation in political science

Mitchell distinguishes between left-wing anarchists and right-wing anarchists Mitchell renames akratists for opposition to government's use of force

Chart shows what he considers economic freedom on horizontal axis and personal freedom on vertical axis

Spatial model of voting plots voters and candidates in multi-dimensional space where each dimension represents single political issue sub-component of issue or candidate attribute

For Mitchell anarchy is not absence of government but rejection of rank