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Michael Cuenco

Michael Cuenco is associate editor of American Affairs.
Articles by Michael Cuenco

From Emancipation to Self-Mastery: A Blueprint for Post-Boomer Politics

Western politics has seen a shift in values and assumptions. We have reached the end of the end of history. Alternatives await. Whether in the form of conservative populism or economic progressivism, they often appear more creative and compelling than the status quo. Though insurgent movements of the Right and the Left have met with varying degrees of success…

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The Canadian Ideology

The city of Ottawa found itself in the unusual position of being at the center of international media attention in early February when the Freedom Convoy occupied Parliament Hill. In the United States and elsewhere, right and left-wing commentators made the most of the crisis, each side integrating it into a preexisting narrative about either…

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“Victory Is Not Possible”: A Theory of the Culture War

In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dictatorship of Oceania subjects its citizens, or at least those within the ruling Party, to a ritual known as the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which a giant “telescreen” blares out propaganda to a captive audience. The narrative conveyed is simple but effective enough to repeat every day with only…

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Immigration and Citizenship: The Canadian Model and the American Dream

Like the Trump administration before it, the Biden administration entered office with big plans for immigration reform. As of this writing, the proposed U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 sits in the House Judiciary Committee. It is too early to tell what will ultimately become of this attempt to resolve one of the most controversial issues…

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A Tale of Two Immigration Systems: Canada and the United States

It is an understatement to say that Americans and Canadians do immigration differently. It is not only vastly different immigration policies and systems that separate the two countries, nor merely the facts of geography—as undeniably significant as it is to share a long border with a less developed neighbor—but there are also sharply divergent histories, cultures, values, principles…

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Tax Sovereignty in the Age of Global Capital

In January 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez found a perhaps unexpected vein of popular support when she proposed raising the top marginal tax rate from 37 percent to 70 percent for those with annual incomes of over $10 million.1 Polling conducted by the Hill and HarrisX soon revealed that 59 percent of Americans supported this idea:…

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