Features The Moral Contamination of Free Speech Posted on September 29, 2017January 27, 201810 commentsbyMalhar Mali We find ourselves living in an age where free speech is considered by many as a concept that only right-wingers care about. “You think free speech is important?” I’m asked.… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter Posted on September 27, 2017September 28, 20176 commentsbyRazib Khan Growing up as a child I didn’t know much about Communism except that it was bad. I knew that it was atheistic from what I had heard at the mosque…… View Post
View Post 18 min Features An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion Posted on September 27, 2017December 31, 201730 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose The rights and social inclusion of trans people is a heated topic right now and, as usual in our present atmosphere, the most extreme views take center stage and completely… View Post
View Post 16 min Review The Strange Death of Europe, Revisited Posted on September 25, 2017January 3, 20185 commentsbyRobert Shaw Areo has already published a review of Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe. However, since the book and its relevant themes are still being discussed, we thought a critical… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars? Posted on September 23, 2017September 24, 20179 commentsbyAndrew Sabisky One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media A Plea for the Humanities Posted on September 21, 2017November 10, 20173 commentsbyIona Italia I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, “critical race” theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern streams of thought on college… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics How Terrorists Are Creating a New Language Posted on September 21, 2017One commentbyGurwinder Bhogal I have been stalking members of the terrorist group Tawheed Network (formerly al-Muhajiroun). I have spied on them over the Internet, and heard much gossip about them in my neighborhood of Bury… View Post
View Post 14 min Culture & Media Appropriating Confusion: A Reply to Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs Posted on September 21, 2017October 6, 20172 commentsbyKenan Malik Earlier this year, Kenan Malik wrote an essay in the New York Times critical of the now-fashionable concept of “cultural appropriation.” The article caused some controversy. Briahna Joy Gray wrote… View Post
View Post 11 min Culture & Media It’s Not Hard for Conservatives to Be on Campus Because They’re Stupid, It’s Hard Because You Are Posted on September 20, 2017September 20, 20179 commentsbyPhilippe Lemoine Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative.” I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Same-Sex Marriage: A Case for “Yes” Posted on September 20, 20172 commentsbyRussell Blackford In its recent decision, the High Court of Australia cleared the way for a voluntary survey of the electorate to gauge community support for same-sex marriage. I don’t defend this… View Post
View Post 13 min Features Review What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know Posted on September 17, 2017December 31, 20176 commentsbyOliver Traldi Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media The Curious Case of Jordan Peterson Posted on September 17, 201722 commentsbyReza Ziai Few have reigned as steady and strong a champion of free speech as well as an opponent of political correctness as University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson. Over the… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media George Orwell Would Dislike You, Me, and Our Opinions Posted on September 17, 2017September 28, 20175 commentsbyBen Sixsmith There is no historical figure — with the exception, perhaps, of Jesus Christ — whose legacy ideologues are keener to appropriate than that of Eric Blair, better known as George… View Post
View Post 4 min Science & Tech Finger Size Does Matter… In Sports Posted on September 13, 2017One commentbyGrant Tomkinson and Makailah Dyer Examine your fingers. Which is longer? Is it the index finger (the finger you use to point with — technically the second digit, or 2D, counting the thumb), or the… View Post
View Post 16 min Politics The Textual Roots of Islamic Violence Posted on September 13, 2017September 15, 20173 commentsbyAndrew Gripp We’re all familiar with the routine by now. A terrorist attack occurs. Hours later, the world learns the identity of the attacker (or, the identities of the attackers). Then comes… View Post
View Post 6 min Review The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline Posted on September 13, 2017September 13, 20172 commentsbyRobert Shaw It is in the nature of things that they should rise and fall. The tide that laps against the coasts of the United States, from sea to shining sea, rises,… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Thoughts on a Friend’s Suicide Posted on September 10, 2017September 11, 20173 commentsbyIona Italia In the very last days of 2016, one of my favorite people in the world took his own life. It hit me very hard. Not only because of how I… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media In Defense of HBO’s Counterfactual ‘Confederate’ Posted on September 10, 2017September 11, 2017One commentbyGavriel D. Rosenfeld In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series Confederate, a show that will take place in a world in which the South successfully seceded from the Union and… View Post