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Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update

Published by Rob Henderson

I was bewildered when I encountered a new social class at Yale four years ago: the luxury belief class. My confusion wasn’t surprising given my unusual background. When I...

November 16, 2019
Spotlight

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Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

Published by Henrik Jönsson

“I think they just shot someone right across from my balcony,” my friend told me.  The gunshot rang out even as we were texting about another recent act of...

November 15, 2019
Top Stories

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Published by Matt Johnson

Is it immoral to be a billionaire? That was the motion before the Oxford Union in a debate held last September, emphatically proposed by the journalist Anand Giridharadas. Billionaires,...

November 15, 2019
Top Stories

The Price of Sex

Published by Jerry Barnett

Working as a photographer for a charity a few years back, I was travelling through Malawi and stopped overnight in a mining town. It was a Wednesday, and I...

November 14, 2019
Economics, Feminism, Sex, Top Stories

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing

Published by Phyllis Chesler

In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually invisible. The shame clung to the victim or to the...

November 13, 2019
Feminism, Top Stories, Women

Chile’s Been Falling Apart for Years. Can It Repair Itself and Remain a Democracy?

Published by Manfred Svensson and Pablo Ortúzar

“In Chile, a billionaire president pushes austerity while the military represses protesters,” Tweeted U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders on October 30. “Thousands have been arrested. Knowing...

November 12, 2019
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Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad?

Published by Nick Whitaker

The last year has been a difficult time for the US’s top universities. In March, a number of top schools including Stanford, Yale, and Georgetown were implicated in the...

November 12, 2019
Education, Right of Reply, Top Stories

Why Taiping 2.0 Isn’t in the Cards: A Reply to ‘China’s Looming Class Struggle’

Published by D. Marshall

In the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen Massacre in 1989, some Western pundits suggested that army factions might rebel against China’s central government. Living in Taiwan, where emotions were...

November 11, 2019
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Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender

Published by Deirdre McCloskey

It’s been a long time now since, at age 53, I became a woman. Actually, I’m an old woman more than twenty years on, who walks sometimes with a...

November 10, 2019
Memoir, Top Stories

Long Read

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

Podcast

Podcast

PODCAST 63: Meghan Daum on Zillennials, #MeToo, and the Culture Wars

Journalist and Essayist Meghan Daum talks to Jonathan Kay about her new book, The Problem With Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars.

November 15, 2019

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Join Us in 2020

by Claire Lehmann

What do you do when you want to speak about an issue in the workplace but find that ill-informed policies penalise you for doing so? What do you say when your son or daughter comes home from school and tells you that “capitalism is racist?” What course of action do you take when your friend or colleague is presumed guilty for a transgression they...

November 13, 2019
Editorial

Recent

Foreign Policy, recent, World Affairs

Tyranny’s Mouthpiece

On September 8, 2019, Syria’s state news agency published an article about the beginning of the Third International Trade Union Forum in Damascus, which hosted “dozens of intellectuals, journalists,...

October 26, 2019
Education, recent

Mediocrity for All!

It strikes me as ironic that in a realm like education, the lesson America’s scholastic visionaries never seem to learn is also the most simple lesson of all—that education...

October 25, 2019
Economics, Politics, recent

What Comes After Capitalism?

A review of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, by Branko Milanovic, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press (September 24, 2019), 304...

October 24, 2019
Art, Education, recent

Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity

Last semester, I was asked to teach a class about “socially engaged art” for the University of Colorado Denver, where I am an adjunct professor for the studio arts...

October 24, 2019
Canada, Politics, recent

Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week’s Election Proved the Opposite

“Citizens ‘don’t feel safe’ as hate fills Edmonton’s streets,” proclaimed the Toronto Star on April 20, in reference to a gathering of Albertan white supremacists—one of at least two...

October 22, 2019
Education, History, Literature, recent

Higher Education’s Medievalist Moral Panic

On September 19, the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS), a 36-year-old organization of academics specializing in the history, culture, and literature of England before the Norman Conquest, hastily voted...

October 22, 2019

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November 14, 2019

The Price of Sex

Working as a photographer for a charity a few years back, I was travelling through Malawi and stopped overnight...

by Jerry Barnett
November 13, 2019

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing

In my pre-feminist days, sexual harassment and rape were so common, so pervasive, so accepted, that they were virtually...

by Phyllis Chesler
November 12, 2019

Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad?

The last year has been a difficult time for the US’s top universities. In March, a number of top...

by Nick Whitaker
November 10, 2019

Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender

It’s been a long time now since, at age 53, I became a woman. Actually, I’m an old woman...

by Deirdre McCloskey
November 8, 2019

Sheep and Mirrors: On Being Social

I’m pregnant with our third child when I read Marlen Haushofer’s 1963 novel ​The Wall​. It’s a terrifying thought...

by Emma Wilkins
November 7, 2019

Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension

Over the last week, Western University (where I am currently enrolled) has been mired in scandal over an instructor’s decision to...

by Matthew Small
November 7, 2019

Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario

Does a thinking person today have a chance of figuring out what to think about climate change? On the...

by Dagfinn Reiersøl
November 7, 2019

Elite Colleges Reconsidered

Yale students, if they’re still anything like they were when I graduated a few short years ago, likely aren’t...

by Erich J. Prince
November 6, 2019

What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard

Ray Blanchard is an adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto who specialises in the study of...

by Louise Perry
November 5, 2019

Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past

Since 1991, the James Tiptree Junior Award has been given annually to a work of “science fiction or fantasy...

by Craig DeLancey
November 5, 2019

Andrew Yang—Technocratic Populist

Andrew Yang is a peculiar candidate for the presidency; not only has he no previous political experience, but he...

by Marshawn Brewer
November 1, 2019

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...

by Jamie Palmer
November 1, 2019

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...

by Jamie Palmer
November 1, 2019

‘For the Love of Men’—A Review

A review of For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank, St. Martin’s...

by Ben Sixsmith
October 31, 2019

Palestine Misunderstood

From my home on the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv, I hear the Muslim call to prayer every day...

by Petra Marquardt-Bigman
October 30, 2019

Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project

On September 3, 1838, the most famous slave in American history began his escape to freedom. Dressed as a...

by Joseph R. Fornieri
October 28, 2019

In Praise of Sylvia Plath’s Forgotten (Sorority) Sister

A tragic early death can do wonders for a writer’s reputation. On October 27, Google dedicated its search page...

by Kevin Mims
October 27, 2019

The Return of the ‘Witch Hunt’ Analogy

The political slur “witch hunt” is back. After continually using the term to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation—84...

by Tony Fels
October 26, 2019

Tyranny’s Mouthpiece

On September 8, 2019, Syria’s state news agency published an article about the beginning of the Third International Trade...

by Matt Johnson
October 26, 2019

It’s Time for ‘LGB’ and ‘T’ to Go Their Separate Ways

The growing rift between increasingly radicalized transgender-rights activists and the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) communities has finally come...

by Brad Polumbo
October 25, 2019

Mediocrity for All!

It strikes me as ironic that in a realm like education, the lesson America’s scholastic visionaries never seem to...

by Steve Salerno
October 24, 2019

What Comes After Capitalism?

A review of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, by Branko Milanovic, Belknap Press:...

by Samuel Hammond
October 24, 2019

Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity

Last semester, I was asked to teach a class about “socially engaged art” for the University of Colorado Denver,...

by Megan Gafford
October 22, 2019

Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week’s Election Proved the Opposite

“Citizens ‘don’t feel safe’ as hate fills Edmonton’s streets,” proclaimed the Toronto Star on April 20, in reference to...

by Jonathan Kay

Podcast

PODCAST 63: Meghan Daum on Zillennials, #MeToo, and the Culture WarsJournalist and Essayist Meghan Daum talks to Jonathan Kay about her new book, The...November 15, 2019

PODCAST 62: Steve Richards on Britain’s Forthcoming General ElectionVeteran political journalist Steve Richards talks to Toby Young about the U.K.’s forthcoming General...November 7, 2019

PODCAST 61: Dr David Adesnik on ISIS, Syria and the KurdsDr David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,...November 2, 2019

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Narrated

NARRATED: Feast and Drink For Our Community’s HealthGreg Ellis reads Feast and Drink For Our Community’s Health, Claire Lehmann’s essay about...November 7, 2019

NARRATED: The Defenestration of DomingoGreg Ellis reads The Defenestration of Domingo, Heather Mac Donald’s essay about how the...October 31, 2019

NARRATED: Are Canadians Becoming More Racist?Greg Ellis reads Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week’s Election Proved the Opposite,...October 23, 2019

Top Stories

  • Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update
    Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update
  • Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
    Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals
  • Gates Derangement Syndrome
    Gates Derangement Syndrome
  • The Price of Sex
    The Price of Sex
  • Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
    Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
  • The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing
    The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is for Good Women to Do Nothing
  • PODCAST 63: Meghan Daum on Zillennials, #MeToo, and the Culture Wars
    PODCAST 63: Meghan Daum on Zillennials, #MeToo, and the Culture Wars
  • Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad?
    Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad?
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The Defenestration of Domingo

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The #MeToo movement has ended the U.S. career of legendary 78-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, one of classical music’s greatest ambassadors and impresarios. For nearly half a century, Domingo’s...

October 18, 2019
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Why White Privilege is Wrong—Part 2

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Many people enjoy invoking race as an explanation for all sorts of things. It is a shared pastime for both the far-left and the far-right. The media expend vast...

October 16, 2019
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