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How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia University

Published by Jonathan Kay

It’s been a year since Atlantic magazine hired, then abruptly fired, conservative writer Kevin Williamson. Shortly after the story came full circle, I caught up with a friend who...

April 19, 2019

comments 31

Free Speech, Top Stories

The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats

Published by Jakob Heidbrink

Several Western countries have seen a surge in “populist” parties, leaders, and policies in recent years. This surge has elicited a forceful response from traditionally dominant elites. The situation...

April 19, 2019

comments 26

Philosophy, Top Stories

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Published by Robin Ashenden

Had the poet George Faludy not written in his native Hungarian—arguably the most impenetrable of European languages—he would, as many have argued, be world famous. He died aged 95...

April 19, 2019

comments 5

Books, Literature, Memoir, Poetry, Top Stories

Keep Calm and Hail Satan

Published by Blake M. Edwards

On its surface Hail Satan?, directed by punctuation enthusiast Penny Lane (Nuts!) and distributed by Magnolia Pictures (Man on Wire, Capturing the Friedmans), is a straightforward if openly sympathetic report on...

April 18, 2019

comments 70

Religion, Review, Top Stories

Why Everyone Values Freedom

Published by Ben Burgis and Matt McManus

On March 28, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “Medicare for All Is about Freedom.” This may strike some viewers as an abuse of language....

April 17, 2019

comments 140

Philosophy, Top Stories

Is the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Politically Diverse?

Published by Uri Harris

Earlier this month, popular author and podcaster Sam Harris tweeted out a graph titled, “A Visual Breakdown of Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) Positions.” The graph purports to compare the...

April 17, 2019

comments 263

Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

Published by Alessandro Strumia

Six months ago CERN hosted a workshop on “High Energy Theory and Gender.” Nearly all the contributors to this and previous workshops on the same topic endorsed the view...

April 16, 2019

comments 165

Divorce and the ‘Silver Bullet’

Published by James C. Coren

Divorce is almost always an ugly and painful experience. But for parents with children, there are additional heart-rending realities to confront. No loving parent wants to be absent for...

April 16, 2019

comments 126

Law, Top Stories

Poetry, recent, Satire

Headline Rhymes

We rightly imagine the pain Of kids separated at our borders But tend to ignore the same Happening in other corners I’m talking, of course Of the halls of...

Neurodiversity, Psychology, recent

What Explains the Resistance to Evolutionary Psychology?

A recent study conducted by evolutionary psychologists, David Buss and William von Hippel, has found empirical support for the claim that evolutionary psychology is a controversial field among social...

Literature, Politics, recent, Recommended

In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote

“Look there, friend Sancho, and behold thirty or forty outrageous giants, with whom, I intend to engage in battle, and put every one of them to death…for, it is...

Psychology, recent

What Doesn’t Kill Us Brings Us Together

The Danish existentialist Søren Kierkegaard once suggested that the appeal of the human experience resided not in comfort and complacency but in struggle and self-discovery. And indeed, human history...

History, Long Read, recent

Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane

How many people who followed the BBC’s podcast series about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter were startled—or even outraged—when Carter was not triumphantly vindicated in the final episode? In the small...

Philosophy, recent, Science

In Defense of Scientism

I hear the jury’s still out on science. ~Gob Bluth In science, the jury is always out. This is because science is a methodological approach to the world, not...

April 21, 2019

Headline Rhymes

We rightly imagine the pain Of kids separated at our borders But tend to ignore the same Happening in...

by Graham Verdon

comments 0

April 19, 2019

Cowardice at Columbia

On Thursday 11 April, shortly after 11pm, a black Columbia student named Alexander McNab walked through the gates of...

by Coleman Hughes

comments 124

April 19, 2019

How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia...

It’s been a year since Atlantic magazine hired, then abruptly fired, conservative writer Kevin Williamson. Shortly after the story...

by Jonathan Kay

comments 31

April 19, 2019

The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats

Several Western countries have seen a surge in “populist” parties, leaders, and policies in recent years. This surge has...

by Jakob Heidbrink

comments 26

April 19, 2019

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Had the poet George Faludy not written in his native Hungarian—arguably the most impenetrable of European languages—he would, as...

by Robin Ashenden

comments 5

April 18, 2019

Keep Calm and Hail Satan

On its surface Hail Satan?, directed by punctuation enthusiast Penny Lane (Nuts!) and distributed by Magnolia Pictures (Man on Wire, Capturing...

by Blake M. Edwards

comments 70

April 17, 2019

Why Everyone Values Freedom

On March 28, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “Medicare for All Is about Freedom.”...

by Ben Burgis and Matt McManus

comments 140

April 16, 2019

Divorce and the ‘Silver Bullet’

Divorce is almost always an ugly and painful experience. But for parents with children, there are additional heart-rending realities...

by James C. Coren

comments 126

April 15, 2019

Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars

On April 10, 2019, an international team of scientists from dozens of research institutions involved in the Event Horizon...

by Sebastian Cesario

comments 53

April 15, 2019

Has the Postmodern Revolution Come Full Circle?

While discussions about the philosophical foundations of judgements of right and wrong are often framed in terms of rational...

by Colin Turfus

comments 84

April 14, 2019

The Problems with America’s Best Teacher Training Programme

A question central to Plato’s Republic is “What should we teach our children?” Judging from the parents I’ve talked to, this...

by Daniel Buck

comments 29

April 13, 2019

Respect, Rights, and Freedoms in an Era of Identity Activism

Ever since he was awarded a knighthood in the 2001 honours list, the British actor Ben Kingsley, probably most...

by Don Trubshaw

comments 89

April 12, 2019

Jordan Peterson, And the New Chivalry

In his recent appearance at Liberty University, Jordan Peterson delivered this verdict on the dominant attitude toward masculinity among...

by Esther O'Reilly

comments 201

April 11, 2019

From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider...

Since the ‘60s the male provider role has been under assault. Associated with the strongly bi-furcated gendered division of...

by Belinda Brown

comments 81

April 10, 2019

Europe’s New Beggars

Recently my wife and I walked along the fashionable shopping street Avenue Montaigne, situated between Place de l’Alma and...

by Johan Wennström

comments 97

April 10, 2019

The End of Aspiration

Since the end of the Second World War, middle- and working-class people across the Western world have sought out—and,...

by Joel Kotkin

comments 192

April 9, 2019

Conservatives Need to Start Taking Art Seriously

Conservatives, crack open some champagne and celebrate. A remarkable renewal of traditional painting and sculpture has taken place in...

by Michael J. Pearce

comments 116

April 7, 2019

In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote

“Look there, friend Sancho, and behold thirty or forty outrageous giants, with whom, I intend to engage in battle,...

by Terry Newman

April 6, 2019

Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane

How many people who followed the BBC’s podcast series about Rubin “Hurricane” Carter were startled—or even outraged—when Carter was...

by Lona Manning

April 6, 2019

In Defense of Scientism

I hear the jury’s still out on science. ~Gob Bluth In science, the jury is always out. This is...

by Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard

In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote

Published by Terry Newman

“Look there, friend Sancho, and behold thirty or forty outrageous giants, with whom, I intend to engage in battle, and put every one of them to death…for, it is...

April 7, 2019

Literature, Politics, recent, Recommended

Prescriptive Racialism and Racial Exclusion

Published by Mohamed Ali

The crowd outside the auditorium was growing larger and louder. Controversy had arisen over the “Panel on Religious Extremism in the Middle East” that I had organized at my...

April 1, 2019

recent, Recommended, Regressive Left

On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate

Published by Matthew Blackwell

Trippy “Medicine” Listening to some of the opponents of medical marijuana over the last few years, one could be forgiven for thinking that they have never heard of a...

March 30, 2019

Health, Hypothesis, Psychology, recent, Recommended, Social Science