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Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

The following is excerpted, with permission, from Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, (HarperCollins 2020), 432 pages. The end is nigh If you...

July 8, 2020

Activism, Environment, Migration, Spotlight, Top Stories

Thoughts on Longevity

Published by Simon Evans

Olivia de Havilland, the oldest surviving actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age, turned 104 last week. To live that long is in itself an act of generosity. She won Oscars...

July 8, 2020

Cinema, History, Top Stories

Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion

Published by Abigail Shrier

The following is excerpted, with permission, from Abigail Shrier’s newly published book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, Regnery Publishing (June 30, 2020) 276 pages. In 2016, Lisa...

July 8, 2020

Diversity Debate, Free Speech, Identity, Top Stories, Women

Arguing in America

Published by Geoff Costeloe

Jacob Siegel’s recent essay for Tablet entitled “The New Truth” manages to capture something important about the current state of discourse in America. Essentially, the marketplace of ideas is...

July 6, 2020

Culture Wars, Law, Philosophy, Top Stories

Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow’s Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation

Published by Peter Cohen

“You really need to pull over. You can’t drive all the way to Illinois without some rest,” my spouse implored, as he tried to speak sense to me on...

July 6, 2020

Free Speech is a Value, not a Right

Published by Logan Chipkin

Free speech is a value, not a right. Understanding this distinction sheds light on the various debates in the culture war—who social media platforms should ban, the role of...

July 6, 2020

Free Speech, Top Stories

To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’

Published by Amr F. Hamour

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients based on a variety of identifiable factors, from age to sex to occupation. Data such as these are...

July 6, 2020

Canada, Genetics, Health, Top Stories

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

Published by Lawrence M. Krauss

In his June 9th eulogy for George Floyd, Reverend Al Sharpton said, “What happened to Floyd happens every day in this country, in education, in health services, and in...

July 3, 2020

Diversity Debate, Science / Tech, Top Stories

July 8, 2020

Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

The following is excerpted, with permission, from Michael Shellenberger’s new book, Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All,...

by Michael Shellenberger

July 8, 2020

Thoughts on Longevity

Olivia de Havilland, the oldest surviving actress from Hollywood’s Golden Age, turned 104 last week. To live that long...

by Simon Evans

July 8, 2020

Discovering the Link Between Gender Identity and Peer Contagion

The following is excerpted, with permission, from Abigail Shrier’s newly published book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our...

by Abigail Shrier

July 6, 2020

Arguing in America

Jacob Siegel’s recent essay for Tablet entitled “The New Truth” manages to capture something important about the current state...

by Geoff Costeloe

July 6, 2020

Free Speech is a Value, not a Right

Free speech is a value, not a right. Understanding this distinction sheds light on the various debates in the...

by Logan Chipkin

July 6, 2020

To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients based on a variety of identifiable factors, from...

by Amr F. Hamour

July 3, 2020

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

In his June 9th eulogy for George Floyd, Reverend Al Sharpton said, “What happened to Floyd happens every day...

by Lawrence M. Krauss

July 3, 2020

Affirmative Action in a Multiethnic Nation

This last week, the California Legislature voted to hold a referendum to repeal Proposition 209 in November. Passed in...

by Max Hyams

July 1, 2020

On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry

Academics who conduct research on intelligence and human differences, or who comment on it, are being removed from their...

by Peter Toshev

July 1, 2020

Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics

It has been months since the novel coronavirus hit Western countries, and many are now wondering how and when...

by Javier Arcos Hódar

June 30, 2020

The Room Where It Happened—A Review

A review of The Room Where It Happened—A White House Memoir by John Bolton, Simon and Schuster (June 2020), 592...

by John Lloyd

June 30, 2020

Policing in the Anomie Era

We bounced along a pitted dirt road on an Indigenous reserve in Northern Ontario. As I leaned on my...

by Mike Wilson

June 29, 2020

The New York Times and the Importance of Conclusion Neutrality

Earlier this month, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote a controversial New York Times op-ed arguing that President...

by Max Diamond

June 27, 2020

On Race and Inequality—A Reply to Nathan J. Robinson

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd has plunged us into a...

by Samuel Kronen

June 26, 2020

Is Foster Care Racist?

“We need to abolish the foster care system,” Charity Chandler-Cole, a member of the Los Angeles County Commission for Children...

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

June 26, 2020

The Need for Scientific Caution in the New Space Race

On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s facility at Cape Canaveral. Hidden in the roar...

by Michael Shilo DeLay and Anastasia Bendebury

June 26, 2020

Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History

We are watching the era of the new iconoclasm take shape, no longer in the form of the destruction...

by Benjamin Kerstein

June 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the College Football Debate

Why should we have to go to class if we come here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to...

by Daniel McGraw

June 25, 2020

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

1. In October 2019, the British climate activist group Extinction Rebellion carried out two weeks of civil disobedience in...

by Michael Shellenberger

June 24, 2020

Rethinking Health Disparities

In the last few decades, the proliferation of diversity, inclusivity, and equity literature throughout the medical profession has become...

by Zachary Robert Caverley

June 22, 2020

The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution

Statues toppled, buildings renamed, curricula “decolonized,” staff fired. The protests following George Floyd’s killing have emboldened cultural revolutionaries in...

by Eric Kaufmann

June 22, 2020

The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery

It has become a common trope that slavery and the slave trade is responsible for the industrial revolution, if...

by Matthew Lesh

June 22, 2020

For 30 Years, I’ve Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the...

I turned 45 this month. I can’t deny that I’m in my middle years. Although I’ve been blessed so...

by Corinna Cohn

June 20, 2020

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back...

High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the...

by Cleo Paskal

Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex

Published by Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen

Universities today bombard students with two contradictory messages about sex, effectively encouraging them to carry a dildo in their pocket, while lugging a fainting couch behind them. On the...

June 17, 2020

Education, Recommended, Sex

Woody Allen’s ‘Apropos of Nothing’—A Review

Published by David Evanier

A Review of Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen, Arcade Publishing (March 2020) 400 pages Rolling Stone has pronounced Woody Allen’s new memoir, Apropos of Nothing, “horrendously ugly.” The...

April 21, 2020

Books, Recommended, Review

The Coming Age of Dispersion

Published by Joel Kotkin

As of this writing, the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic remain uncertain. But one possible consequence is an acceleration of the end of the megacity era. In its...

March 25, 2020

COVID-19, Economics, Health, Politics, Recommended