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3 young black people raise fists at a BLM protest.

Demystifying Critical Race Theory

Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous.

Josh Yuter

19 Feb 2025 · 18 min read

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Trump and the DEI Counter-Revolution

Civil-rights law made the DEI world; civil-rights reform can unmake it.

Thomas F. Powers

8 Feb 2025 · 44 min read

Donald Symons as a young man. Black-and-white phot

Sage of Sex and Psyche

Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).

Steven Pinker

4 Feb 2025 · 12 min read

Two firefighters, next to a fire truck, by the side of a highway, across from a blaze.

Three Hard Truths About California’s Fire Crisis

Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.

Claire Lehmann

12 Jan 2025 · 7 min read

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Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a reasonable claim to live in the Holy Land, based on deep local roots.

John Aziz

20 Feb 2025 · 8 min read

A Kinder, Gentler Eliminationism

Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.

Susie Linfield

19 Feb 2025 · 18 min read

Eminem in a train carriage, holding a rubbish

Slim Shady’s Blues

Eminem’s music helped him to cope with his own suffering. It also helped his listeners cope with theirs.

Samuel Kronen

18 Feb 2025 · 10 min read

The Christopher Wren Building at the College of William & Mary is an old building, at the end of an avenue of trees. .

Universities Are Worth Saving

Those seeking to address the crisis on America’s campuses should resist the tendency toward nihilism—the temptation to conclude that we need to just (metaphorically) burn it all down.

Jonathan Rauch

18 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

A group of women hold up their U of Alberta Nursing scarves.

Explaining Canada’s Cult of ‘Decolonial Futurity’ to Americans

Legions of Canadian university students are now required to mumble fatuous platitudes about decolonisation as a condition of graduation. It’s effectively become Canada’s national liturgy.