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Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

Published by Toby Young

The Conservatives’ resounding victory in yesterday’s British General Election won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spent time canvassing in the ‘Red Wall.’ That’s the name given to...

December 13, 2019
Politics, Spotlight

Top Stories

How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis

Published by Les Coleman

Research [is] a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education. ~Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Scholarly research is in...

December 14, 2019
Economics, Education, Social Science, Top Stories

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and the Power and Responsibility of the Artist

Published by Clint Margrave

On December 14, 1957, only four days after he had delivered his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Albert Camus gave another speech in Sweden, this time...

December 12, 2019
Spotlight, Top Stories

Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light

Published by Paulina Neuding

It is dark and bitterly cold—early morning in Nordic midwinter. Suddenly, she appears: A beautiful girl, dressed in white, palms pressed together as if in prayer, carrying on her...

December 11, 2019
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Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr

Published by Andrew Rankin

The enthusiasm with which the people of Japan recently celebrated the enthronement of their new emperor, Naruhito, indicates the extent to which Japan has regained confidence in its imperial...

December 11, 2019
History, Literature, Top Stories

Australia’s PISA Shock

Published by Greg Ashman

Last week, the latest results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) were released. These were based on tests taken in 2018 in reading, mathematics and science by...

December 10, 2019
Top Stories

The Jewish Dilemma

Published by Joel Kotkin

Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid. It is hard to be a Jew. ~Sholem Aleichem When Britain’s Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the...

December 9, 2019
Top Stories

‘Girls Need Female Role Models’ and Other Bromides

Published by Elena Shalneva

There are a handful of dictums in the modern feminist discourse that are so omnipresent, so incontrovertible, so apparently obvious, that, whenever they are pronounced, the only appropriate reaction...

December 9, 2019
Top Stories

Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?

Published by Wilfred Reilly

The claim that there’s an “epidemic” of fatal anti-transgender violence in the United States has been made widely in recent years. A Google search for the phrase “epidemic of...

December 7, 2019
Crime, Social Science, Top Stories

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PODCAST 66: Alireza Nader on the Political Unrest in Iran and the Regime’s Brutal Crackdown

Alireza Nader, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about the recent political protests in Iran and the regime’s brutal response.

December 11, 2019

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  • When Disruptive Students Are Coddled, the Whole Class Suffers
    When Disruptive Students Are Coddled, the Whole Class Suffers
  • Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
    Britain's Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It's Broke
  • Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
    Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson
  • Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and the Power and Responsibility of the Artist
    Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and the Power and Responsibility of the Artist
  • Australia’s PISA Shock
    Australia’s PISA Shock
  • Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr
    Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr
  • Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light
    Saint Lucia—Darkness Has Not Overcome The Light
  • Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism
    Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism
  • The Jewish Dilemma
    The Jewish Dilemma

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GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children

by Matt Ridley

Any day now, the government of Bangladesh may become the first country to approve the growing of a variety of yellow rice by farmers known as Golden Rice. If so, this would be a momentous victory in a long and exhausting battle fought by scientists and humanitarians to tackle a huge human health problem—a group that’s faced a great deal of opposition by misguided...

December 1, 2019
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Mayors Won’t Rule the World

Earlier in this decade, cities—the bigger and denser the better—appeared as the planet’s geographic stars. According to Benjamin Barber, author of the 2013 book If Mayors Ruled the World,...

November 27, 2019
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Thanksgiving—A Uniquely American Tradition

After decades of faithful repetition, the annual intellectual flagellation of Thanksgiving has become a tradition all its own, as seemingly indispensable as turkey or pumpkin pie. But despite the...

November 27, 2019
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Inside the Woke Actors Studio: How I Trained Future Doctors to Police Their Pronouns

I’ve always considered myself a collector of interesting experiences. Perhaps to my detriment, my résumé looks more like a roster of Whose Line Is It Anyway sketches than a...

November 26, 2019
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Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?

The word “gentrification” was coined in 1964 to describe the influx of wealthy newcomers into low-income inner-city neighborhoods, resulting in rising property values, changes in neighborhood culture, and displacement...

November 25, 2019
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Why UBI Ought to Appeal to Conservatives

Republicans are traditionally hostile to what they call government “hand-outs.” This is not because they believe people shouldn’t get what they need. Rather, conservatives believe that people should get...

November 20, 2019
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Religious Progressivism

Almost 40 years ago I read Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Russian Revolution, in which he makes the case that Soviet Communism was essentially a religion in the mould of Christianity,...

November 20, 2019

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December 14, 2019

How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis

Research [is] a strenuous and devoted attempt to force nature into the conceptual boxes supplied by professional education. ~Thomas...

by Les Coleman
December 13, 2019

Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

The Conservatives’ resounding victory in yesterday’s British General Election won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spent time...

by Toby Young
December 11, 2019

Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr

The enthusiasm with which the people of Japan recently celebrated the enthronement of their new emperor, Naruhito, indicates the...

by Andrew Rankin
December 10, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg and the Changing Civil Rights Movement

On October 17, 2019, defending Facebook’s generally hands-off policy with respect to regulating the content of political advertisements, CEO...

by John R. Wood, Jr.
December 7, 2019

Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?

The claim that there’s an “epidemic” of fatal anti-transgender violence in the United States has been made widely in...

by Wilfred Reilly
December 5, 2019

Tensions in NATO and the Looming End of Pax Americana

As NATO leaders gathered in London this week to mark the 70th anniversary of history’s most venerable military alliance,...

by Brian Stewart
December 5, 2019

The New White Man’s Burden

In recent years, we have seen graphic and disturbing scenes of migrants attempting to cross into Europe as they...

by Rumy Hasan
December 5, 2019

Common-Good Capitalism: Populism With a Twist

“Despite three years of robust economic growth, millions are unable to find dignified work; they feel forgotten and left...

by Maggie Selner
December 4, 2019

The Million-Petalled Flower

Who wrote this? “Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed...

by Andrew Gleeson
December 4, 2019

Something for Nothing—The Importance of Mindful Volunteering

Every day we receive fresh solicitations requesting our time, our money, and our attention to various causes. It is...

by Chuck Lanigan
November 29, 2019

The Availability Heuristic and Mass Shooting Fears

Fear of mass shootings is becoming a source of pervasive anxiety for an increasing number of people in the...

by Evan Balkcom
November 28, 2019

Corbynite Economics

A review of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley, Repeater Books (September 2019) 300...

by Sam Bowman
November 25, 2019

Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education

I. All We Like Sheep In the 1980s, when the Reagan administration chose the name “Peacekeeper” for an intercontinental...

by Lyell Asher
November 22, 2019

YouTube Censored My Interview With Posie Parker

One of the crucial debates in the modern online space in recent years has been about the limits of...

by Konstantin Kisin
November 20, 2019

Why UBI Ought to Appeal to Conservatives

Republicans are traditionally hostile to what they call government “hand-outs.” This is not because they believe people shouldn’t get...

by Cody Kommers
November 20, 2019

Religious Progressivism

Almost 40 years ago I read Nikolai Berdyaev’s The Russian Revolution, in which he makes the case that Soviet...

by Colin Turfus
November 19, 2019

Bereft of Impartial Arbiters

The proximate cause of the US House of Representatives’ decision to invoke articles of impeachment is the president’s decision...

by Brian Stewart
November 19, 2019

Please Stop Calling Yourself a ‘Feminist Badass’

I am the feminist who gets accused of “pearl clutching” in response to flagrant and reflexive uses of the...

by Meghan Daum
November 16, 2019

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

I was bewildered when I encountered a new social class at Yale four years ago: the luxury belief class....

by Rob Henderson
November 15, 2019

Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals

“I think they just shot someone right across from my balcony,” my friend told me.  The gunshot rang out...

by Henrik Jönsson
November 15, 2019

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Is it immoral to be a billionaire? That was the motion before the Oxford Union in a debate held...

by Matt Johnson
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

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

“In Chile, a billionaire president pushes austerity while the military represses protesters,” Tweeted U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential aspirant...

by Manfred Svensson and Pablo Ortúzar

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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 66: Alireza Nader on the Political Unrest in Iran and the Regime’s Brutal Crackdown

Alireza Nader, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about the recent political protests in Iran and the regime’s brutal response.

December 11, 2019
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PODCAST 65: Benedict Beckeld on Oikophobia—Fashionable Disdain For Your Own Culture

Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West.

December 1, 2019

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Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education

Published by Lyell Asher

I. All We Like Sheep In the 1980s, when the Reagan administration chose the name “Peacekeeper” for an intercontinental ballistic missile sporting 300-kiloton nuclear warheads, critics of the program...

November 25, 2019
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Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update

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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
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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
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