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Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just ‘Affirmation’ and Drugs

Published by Marcus Evans

Over the past five years, there has been a 400 percent rise in referrals to the Tavistock Centre in north London, the only National Health Service (NHS) clinic in...

January 17, 2020
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Top Stories

Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames

Published by Jonathan Kay

It’s an eight-and-a-half-hour drive from Toronto to Indianapolis. And the route, which takes me through Sarnia, Detroit, Toledo and Fort Wayne, is far from scenic. But Gen Con is...

January 17, 2020
Top Stories

All the Single Ladies

Published by Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson

“Oh, he’s kind of cute.” My friend at Yale, swiping through Tinder, leaned over and showed me his profile. “Wait, no.” She moved her finger leftward. “Why not? He...

January 16, 2020
Top Stories

Glassdoor Is Broken

Published by Peter L. Levin

Public reviews serve an essential purpose in holding governments and institutions, stores and restaurants, and teachers and employers accountable. I fully and enthusiastically support transparency, including for private companies...

January 16, 2020
Social Media, Tech, Top Stories

Studying the Links Between White Supremacist Terrorists and School Shooters

Published by Yagil Henkin

In November, authorities in Colorado arrested a suspect accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue in the city of Pueblo. On Facebook, the suspect expressed support for the...

January 14, 2020
Top Stories

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

Published by Barbara Kay

I received the news that Sir Roger Scruton had died with a pang in my heart. I did not know him personally, although our paths crossed once. And I...

January 14, 2020
Top Stories

Reflections on Intersectionality

Published by Coleman Hughes

Inspired by the fallout from a recent Twitter thread posted by Sarah Haider, I’d like to offer some passing thoughts on intersectionality. Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw as a...

January 14, 2020
Activism, Education, Privilege, Top Stories

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PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton

Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.

January 13, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 70: Harvard history professor James Hankins talks about his new book on Renaissance Italy

Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.

January 9, 2020

Must Reads

Demoted and Placed on Probation

by Stuart Reges

It all started in June 2018, when Quillette published my article, “Why Women Don’t Code,” and things picked up steam when Jordan Peterson shared a link to the article on his Twitter account. A burst of outrage and press coverage followed which I discussed in a follow-up piece. The original article was one of the ten most read pieces published by Quillette in 2018,...

January 11, 2020
Diversity, Education, Free Speech, Must Reads

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It’s Time to Pay for Social Media

Information doesn’t want to be free. It’s valuable and wants to earn. And its existence doesn’t free anyone; possessing it, however, can do the opposite. ~Ken Liu, The Paper...

January 11, 2020
Education, recent

My University’s Plan for a Brave New World

As the Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported, the University of Tulsa has been bitterly divided by True Commitment, an academic restructuring that guts the liberal arts and eliminates...

January 11, 2020
Economics, Environment, Politics, recent

The Growth Dilemma

More is more and more is also different ~Benjamin Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, 2005 For much of the last 70 years, economic growth has lifted the...

January 9, 2020
Cinema, recent, Review, Security

‘The Report’ Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA’s Interrogation Methods

The Report, a new film from Vice Studios starring Adam Driver, feels somehow both timely and late. It tells the story of American Senate staffer Daniel Jones (Driver), who...

January 9, 2020
Must Reads, recent, Regressive Left, World Affairs

Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists

The last Shah of Iran, ousted by revolution in 1979, often warned of “the accursed alliance of the red and the black” that threatened his country. By this he...

January 8, 2020
Politics, recent

Black or White, It’s the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology

Last year closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three people at a Jersey City kosher market by two shooters...

January 7, 2020

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January 16, 2020

Glassdoor Is Broken

Public reviews serve an essential purpose in holding governments and institutions, stores and restaurants, and teachers and employers accountable....

by Peter L. Levin
January 14, 2020

Reflections on Intersectionality

Inspired by the fallout from a recent Twitter thread posted by Sarah Haider, I’d like to offer some passing...

by Coleman Hughes
January 13, 2020

Gambling in a Time of Despair

Last year in June, the New York State Senate voted to legalize mobile sports betting. For a moment, it...

by Roy Wayne Meredith III
January 13, 2020

An Evolutionary Explanation for Unscientific Beliefs

“Another theory is that humans were created by God,” announced my tenth-grade biology student as she clicked past PowerPoint...

by Brandon Bretl
January 11, 2020

Demoted and Placed on Probation

It all started in June 2018, when Quillette published my article, “Why Women Don’t Code,” and things picked up...

by Stuart Reges
January 11, 2020

It’s Time to Pay for Social Media

Information doesn’t want to be free. It’s valuable and wants to earn. And its existence doesn’t free anyone; possessing...

by Tristan Flock
January 11, 2020

My University’s Plan for a Brave New World

As the Chronicle of Higher Education recently reported, the University of Tulsa has been bitterly divided by True Commitment,...

by Jacob Howland
January 9, 2020

The Growth Dilemma

More is more and more is also different ~Benjamin Friedman, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, 2005 For much...

by Joel Kotkin
January 9, 2020

‘The Report’ Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA’s...

The Report, a new film from Vice Studios starring Adam Driver, feels somehow both timely and late. It tells...

by Michael J. Totten
January 8, 2020

Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric

Over the last two weeks, the Royal Australian Navy has been evacuating thousands of residents fleeing uncontrollable bushfires in...

by Claire Lehmann
January 8, 2020

Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists

The last Shah of Iran, ousted by revolution in 1979, often warned of “the accursed alliance of the red...

by Kaveh Shahrooz
January 7, 2020

Black or White, It’s the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology

Last year closed with a number of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York City area—including the killing of three...

by Ralph Leonard
January 7, 2020

The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down

Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the...

by Kevin Mims
January 4, 2020

Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis

Two years ago I started an experiment I would like to recommend to you. At the urging of my...

by Bill Frezza
January 3, 2020

Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century

In June of this year the China Tribunal delivered its Final Judgement and Summary Report.1 An independent committee composed...

by Aaron Sarin
January 2, 2020

The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why

A recent NBC News report warned that media coverage of detransitioners—formerly transgender individuals seeking to return to the gender...

by Lisa Marchiano
January 2, 2020

False Humility Will Not Save the Planet

At the root of our climate problem, writes Pope Francis in his ecological encyclical Laudato Si, lies our human...

by Maarten Boudry
January 2, 2020

Scandinavia: Can The New “Parental Team” Replace Marriage?

We all know the statistics: Children of divorced or separated parents underperform in school, are more likely to abuse...

by Mikael Jalving
December 31, 2019

Reasons to be Hopeful

If you had to choose one moment in history in which you could be born, and you didn’t know...

by Tony Morley
December 30, 2019

Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?

If you list all of the many thousands of words and phrases that can be used to describe someone’s...

by Louise Perry
December 29, 2019

Politics and Rationality: On the Uses and Limits of Science

How rational is your politics, and how rational could or should politics be, in general? What is, and what...

by Crispin Sartwell
December 29, 2019

We ‘Gender-Critical’ Feminists Pay a Price for Speaking Out. But the Price of...

Disagreement over sex and gender have cleaved the feminist community between those who believe that biological sex is immutable,...

by Libby Emmons
December 28, 2019

Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence

For many years, colleges and universities have observed the Americans with Disabilities Act by finding alternate ways for students...

by Adam Ellwanger
December 27, 2019

Sex Differences in Cognition

In a previous post I examined the biological and social influences on sex and gender identity. Evidence suggests that...

by Christopher J. Ferguson

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History, Human Rights, Journalism, Law, Long Read, Media, World Affairs

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II)

PART TWO: THE TRIAL VI. The Standards of Western Journalism The trial eventually began at the High Courts of Justice in London on 28 February 2000. The defendants—recorded as...

November 1, 2019
Europe, History, Human Rights, Journalism, Law, Long Read, Media, World Affairs

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)

PART ONE: THE CAMPS Intro: From Phnom Pehn to Srebrenica In 1977, Noam Chomsky and his co-author, the late Edward S. Herman, wrote an essay for the Nation entitled...

November 1, 2019
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Podcast

PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton

Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.

January 13, 2020
Podcast

PODCAST 70: Harvard history professor James Hankins talks about his new book on Renaissance Italy

Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.

January 9, 2020

Recommended

Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric

Published by Claire Lehmann

Over the last two weeks, the Royal Australian Navy has been evacuating thousands of residents fleeing uncontrollable bushfires in the south-eastern part of my country. Amid scenes of desperate...

January 8, 2020
Must Reads, Recommended

The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down

Published by Kevin Mims

Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?” Fallon celebrated the...

January 7, 2020
Books, Diversity, Literature, Recommended

Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century

Published by Aaron Sarin

In June of this year the China Tribunal delivered its Final Judgement and Summary Report.1 An independent committee composed of lawyers, human rights experts, and a transplant surgeon, the...

January 3, 2020
Asia, Human Rights, Must Reads, Recommended, World Affairs
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