Politics Communications 101 for the Modern Left Posted on March 31, 201812 commentsbyTristan Flock By reacting to disagreements with hostility rather than cogent argument, modern leftists not only fail to persuade but actively make enemies. View Post
View Post 18 min Features Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump Posted on January 2, 2018January 17, 201842 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay This is an argument about how to defeat the lunatic right by criticizing the lunatic left. View Post
View Post 17 min Politics A Note to My Fellow Progressives Posted on October 1, 2017October 4, 201710 commentsbyJason Najum Personal note: The author tries to understand privilege. Realizes that the very writing of this is in some way due to a lighter life experience. And so hoping that you… View Post
View Post 36 min Features A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity Posted on August 22, 2017February 2, 201845 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose This document is very long and detailed so a brief bulleted summary is provided below for those who don’t have the hour it takes for a careful read. Modernity, in… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics A Lifelong Leftist’s Cri De Coeur Posted on August 19, 2017September 8, 201715 commentsbyIona Italia “Iona is no leftist,” a Twitter acquaintance recently asserted. It’s left me pensive as to what it means to be on the left (or not) and why so many of… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics After Barcelona: Let the Denial and Excuses Begin Posted on August 18, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyAR Devine In the aftermath of yet another Islamist attack in Europe, this time in Barcelona, the usual excuse makers will still be trying to blame the Iraq war, or the Crusades,… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media Politics Why Bruce Lee’s Legacy Should Inspire Us to Revolutionize — and Modernize — American Political Discourse Posted on June 24, 2017December 23, 2017No commentsbyJohn Kirbow I am in a particularly creative mood, so I’ll write a bit about something I discussed in a recent public debate in NYC on Political Correctness: Martial arts has greatly… View Post
View Post 9 min Culture & Media Politics Some Dad Advice for the Youth of Today Posted on April 28, 2017September 9, 20177 commentsbyChristopher Kiely “Do you remember, when you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire?” sings Laura Jane Grace fiercely on her track I Was a Teenage Anarchist, grasping an… View Post
View Post 10 min Culture & Media The Beat Generation, Hippies, and Hunter S. Thompson: From Progressive to Regressive Posted on March 13, 2017September 9, 201714 commentsbyChristopher Kiely I grew up Left. My father was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. He and my pregnant mother fled St. Louis Missouri in 1969 in their VW bus packed… View Post
View Post 6 min Features The Trouble with Linda Sarsour Posted on January 27, 2017September 9, 201719 commentsbyMalhar Mali Imagine I believed these things: A conservative religious law is “only misunderstood,” so we shouldn’t worry about the millions living under it in abject oppression due to their homosexuality, lack… View Post
View Post 14 min Features A Theory for Understanding the Regressive Left Posted on December 20, 2016September 29, 201715 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay I‘m going to start by introducing a term that sounds funny but isn’t. Ophobophobia. Ophobophobia is the irrational fear of being perceived a bigot (by self or others) by being deemed insufficiently… View Post