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The Coming Post-COVID Global Order

Published by Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economics in the West, but the harshest impacts may yet be felt in the developing world. After decades of improvement in poorer countries, a...

October 19, 2020
Africa, China, COVID-19, Economics, Health, Latin America, Middle East, Politics, Spotlight, World Affairs

Top Stories

My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage’s ‘Story of O’ Revisited

Published by Marilyn Simon

I’m sitting on a plane and I’m feeling increasingly excited. I’m flushed. My heart rate is up, and I can’t seem to find a comfortable way to sit. My...

October 18, 2020
Books, Feminism, Literature, Sex, Top Stories

Not All Identities Are Created Equal

Published by Razib Khan

In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations of gender, and considerations of class or religious confession. But...

October 17, 2020
Identity, Politics, Top Stories

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

Published by Steven Volynets

On October 2nd, the New York Times ran a profile of Hawk Newsome, the Bronx-based co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. “At over 6 feet tall...

October 16, 2020
Activism, BLM, Diversity Debate, Education, Top Stories

Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency

Published by Quillette Magazine

Between 2008 and 2019, total newsroom employment in the United States declined by 23 percent. At newspapers, the drop has been more than 50 percent. Journalists are hardly to...

October 16, 2020
Activism, Culture, Culture Wars, Media, Politics, Top Stories
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The Moral Panic over ‘Sexualisation’

Published by Jerry Barnett

When I was running a streaming adult movie site in 2007, two business threats appeared almost simultaneously—one from the market and the other from the state. The first was...

October 16, 2020
Activism, Feminism, Free Speech, Top Stories

My Brief Spell as an Activist

Published by Lucy Kross Wallace

I knew a few social justice campaigners in high school. They were advocates, they liked to remind the rest of us, and they were endowed with holy outrage and...

October 14, 2020
Activism, Memoir, Neurodiversity, Top Stories

The Lawrence Mead Affair

Published by Noah Carl

Lawrence Mead, a long-time proponent of welfare reform, is a professor of politics and public policy at New York University. On July 21st this year, an ill-advised article he...

October 13, 2020
Activism, Education, Top Stories

Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

Published by Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley

It is 1980, and you are getting married. Your parents decide to celebrate your nuptials by inviting 100 guests to a wedding reception. The reception cost them $100 per...

October 13, 2020
Economics, Top Stories
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PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism

October 20, 2020

Books

Books, Feminism, Literature, Sex, Top Stories

My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage’s ‘Story of O’ Revisited

I’m sitting on a plane and I’m feeling increasingly excited. I’m flushed. My heart rate is up, and I can’t seem to find a comfortable way to sit. My...

October 18, 2020

Must read

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like

Published by Scott Newgent

At a recent gathering, a daughter’s friend told us, “I’m probably trans because I don’t like female puberty.” This instantly got my attention, because I have known this child...

October 6, 2020
Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity, Family, Identity, Must Reads, Top Stories, Women

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October 19, 2020

The Coming Post-COVID Global Order

The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated economics in the West, but the harshest impacts may yet be felt in the...

by Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
October 18, 2020

My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage’s ‘Story of O’ Revisited

I’m sitting on a plane and I’m feeling increasingly excited. I’m flushed. My heart rate is up, and I...

by Marilyn Simon
October 17, 2020

Not All Identities Are Created Equal

In 2020, much of the public discussion of social issues revolves around notions of identity. Ideas about race, reformulations...

by Razib Khan
October 16, 2020

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

On October 2nd, the New York Times ran a profile of Hawk Newsome, the Bronx-based co-founder of Black Lives...

by Steven Volynets
October 16, 2020

Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency

Between 2008 and 2019, total newsroom employment in the United States declined by 23 percent. At newspapers, the drop...

by Quillette Magazine
Getty images
October 16, 2020

The Moral Panic over ‘Sexualisation’

When I was running a streaming adult movie site in 2007, two business threats appeared almost simultaneously—one from the...

by Jerry Barnett
October 14, 2020

My Brief Spell as an Activist

I knew a few social justice campaigners in high school. They were advocates, they liked to remind the rest...

by Lucy Kross Wallace
October 13, 2020

The Lawrence Mead Affair

Lawrence Mead, a long-time proponent of welfare reform, is a professor of politics and public policy at New York...

by Noah Carl
October 13, 2020

Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

It is 1980, and you are getting married. Your parents decide to celebrate your nuptials by inviting 100 guests...

by Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley
October 11, 2020

The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The recent explosion in Beirut was like the most recent episode in a tragic decline. Beirut used to be...

by Shay Khatiri
October 10, 2020

Is China the Governance of the Future?

In his 2009 book When China Rules the World, Martin Jacques notes with satisfaction that “as a Chinese world...

by John Lloyd
October 9, 2020

How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12th. He was a philosopher, public intellectual, provocateur, novelist, composer, lawyer, organist, and...

by John Young
October 8, 2020

For Some Adjunct Professors, It’s Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job

The issue of academic freedom is particularly tenuous for the growing number of college teachers who hold positions that...

by Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
October 8, 2020

George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the ‘Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life’

I. In December 1936, George Orwell was on his way to Spain to join the Republican side in the...

by Matt Johnson
October 8, 2020

The Prescience of Shelby Steele

I have long believed that race is a mask through which other human needs manifest themselves. I think we...

by Samuel Kronen
October 7, 2020

Sex and the American Presidency

This essay was first published in the French literary journal America, on July 8th, 2020 America was founded by...

by Seth Greenland
October 6, 2020

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like

At a recent gathering, a daughter’s friend told us, “I’m probably trans because I don’t like female puberty.” This...

by Scott Newgent
October 5, 2020

A Poor Farrier’s Journey to Political Sanity

I’m a 26-year-old American working-class college dropout who owns and operates a small business. From the time the COVID-19...

by Austin Schue
October 5, 2020

My Military Jail-Time in Israel

I have never done time in a civilian prison. But military jails are another matter. During my long service...

by Benny Morris
October 4, 2020

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

The massive COVID-19 death toll in the United States—206,000 and counting—shows what happens when science becomes politicized, and people...

by Jonathan Kay
October 3, 2020

Time and Perceptions of Trustworthiness—the Row over a Novel Study

So here you are, head down, truffling along cheerfully towards your morning flat white at the local, lost in...

by Rosalind Arden
October 2, 2020

Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression

An article in Tablet magazine last month by Paul Berman, “Lynching and Liberalism,” paints the gloomy history of coercion...

by Robert D. King
October 1, 2020

The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity

Locked down in a northern Ontario cottage over the summer, I found myself listening to CBC Radio’s Sunday Edition,...

by Lorraine Clark
September 30, 2020

John Glubb and Avoiding the Fate of Empires

Empires rise, and empires fall. This fact of history—so obvious looking backwards—is all but inconceivable to those living through...

by Leo Nicolletto

China Syndrome

The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the concluding part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 6, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the third part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

September 2, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the second part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part One looked at the circumstances surrounding...

August 29, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, World Affairs

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Published by Philippe Lemoine

Note: This is the first part of a four-part series of essays looking in detail at China’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This part looks at the circumstances surrounding...

August 24, 2020
China, China Syndrome Series, COVID-19, Health, Long Read, Top Stories, World Affairs
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PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism

October 20, 2020

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Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

Published by Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

This week, a group of about 200 students, parents, alumni, and concerned local residents flooded the sidewalk in front of America’s number-one-ranked public high school—Thomas Jefferson High School for...

September 23, 2020
Activism, Culture Wars, Diversity, Diversity Debate, Education, Identity, Immigration, Migration, Politics, Recommended, Science, Tech, Top Stories

Then They Came for Beethoven

Published by Daniel Lelchuk

This week, Vox published an article titled “How Beethoven’s 5th Symphony put the classism in classical music.” “Since its 1808 premiere, audiences have interpreted [its opening progression] as a...

September 19, 2020
Art, Culture, Culture Wars, Entertainment, Music, Must Reads, Recommended

Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment

Published by Rav Arora

In the days and weeks following George Floyd’s death in May, activists flooded the streets with placards and slogans to denounce racism and police violence. But the zeal with...

September 8, 2020
Activism, BLM, Law, Politics, Recommended

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