The Vilnius Fiasco There is a better way to protect Ukrainian sovereignty and security—and long-term Western interests—than NATO membership. Adam Garfinkle 4 Jan 2024 · 23 min read
How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way It is time for the EA movement to rediscover humanism. Matt Johnson 21 Dec 2023 · 29 min read
A History of Feminist Antisemitism The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred. Kara Jesella 15 Dec 2023 · 21 min read
The Genocidal Imagination Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th. Pascal Bruckner 12 Dec 2023 · 20 min read
Introducing Justapedia A new alternative to Wikipedia has arrived. Can it succeed where others have failed? Shuichi Tezuka 11 Dec 2023 · 24 min read
Kissinger and Cambodia Attempts to hold US policy solely responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge are historically inept. Lachlan Peters 7 Dec 2023 · 20 min read
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History” An interview with Steven Pinker. Matt Johnson 1 Dec 2023 · 27 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression. Susie Linfield 18 Nov 2023 · 21 min read
Who Should Fund Science? The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods. Zachary Robert Caverley 4 Nov 2023 · 17 min read
Man Out of Time A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism. Kevin Mims 6 Oct 2023 · 18 min read
Howard Men Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates. Adam Gussow 3 Oct 2023 · 57 min read
Sculpture and Story Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable? Aidan Harte 2 Oct 2023 · 19 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality. Geoffrey C. Kabat 15 Sep 2023 · 20 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go? Humanity and the Final Frontier. Joseph Grosso 28 Aug 2023 · 19 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read