Cognitive Distortions
How the culture wars came for Wikipedia’s articles about human intelligence.
Shuichi Tezuka
· 24 min read
Céline, Literary Antichrist
If we demand that our artists be angels, we will not have any art left to appreciate.
RJ Smith
· 9 min read
Children of the Counter-Revolution
Sexual liberty reconsidered.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Troubadour at War
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel in its darkest hour.
Ari David Blaff
· 8 min read
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan
Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Steven Pinker, Harvey Silverglate
· 15 min read
McCartney at 80
Four score years of ordinary genius.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 22 min read
The Burden of the Best?
From self-belief to self-care.
Steve Salerno
· 13 min read
Has Olivia Manning’s ‘Fortunes of War’ Finally Found Its Moment?
The Ukrainian war has made Manning’s writing more relevant now than at any time since it was written.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read
The Wobblies’ Return
A lovingly restored 1979 film excavates the lost history of American radicalism.
Thomas Doherty
· 9 min read
Undiminished by Decadence
I grew up in the 1960s and ’70s and I’m happy to report that, for the most part, television and mainstream cinema today are orders of magnitude better than they were in my salad days.
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read
How We Can Get Clean Energy—What Needs to Be Done?
Editor's note: this is the third in a three-part series on how we can get clean energy. Part I explains the relationship between Fuel and Human Progress, Part II answers the question “Is Nuclear Power Safe?” and Part III provides an answer to “What Needs to Be Done?
Robert Zubrin
· 12 min read
The End of War Poetry
Among literary forms, war poetry is unusual for having enjoyed a universally acknowledged and tightly defined golden age.
Simon Evans
· 9 min read
Art Is Not Therapy
Something is flattened when our understanding of art is asked to serve the logic of a medical diagnosis, which sees the messiness of the human condition as a malady to be cured.
Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead
· 11 min read
Get Ready for the Return of the Abortion Novel
The abortion novels that proliferated in the late 1960s were filled with characters who are forced by carelessness and circumstance to make the most agonizing of personal choices.
Kevin Mims
· 26 min read
When Animals Shed Their Wings
Worker ants can sprout wings—but don’t. Ant and termite queens destroy theirs after mating. Many island birds evolve into flightlessness. Can evolution explain why?
Richard Dawkins
· 7 min read