Railways and Pluralist Politics

The Product Of The Railways Is The Timetable

Benedict Springbett | 26th September 2025 | U

The railways’ main offering to the public is the intricate mapping of space, time and networks distilled into a timetable. Both track infrastructure and the rolling stock of trains have to be planned around the timetable. When infrastructure is separated from operations, this link is broken. The two most successful railway systems in the world — Switzerland and Japan — understand this principle (1,900 words)

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Overcoming Our Politics Of War

David D. Corey | Law & Liberty | 24th September 2025 | U

Manifesto to abandon politics as war. People in pluralist societies “live radically different lives because they hold divergent ideas about what is good. Some treasure religious freedom. Others treasure economic freedom. Still others prize expressive freedom. The problem is that freedoms are not always compatible. The result is a perception that people who differ from us pose an existential threat” (2,000 words)