The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed. Russell T. Warne 25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction Frank Sinatra's “Come Fly With Me” was the best-selling album in the United States for five weeks in 1958, but the irony of its popularity (or, perhaps, the source of its aspirational appeal) is that practically none of us could take up the offer to "glide, starry-eyed& Kevin Mims 24 Nov 2021 · 33 min read
Weekly Roundup and a Legal Scholar's Response to the Rittenhouse Trial Sometimes, what we are taught, and then either by mistake or by force, integrate into our thinking, is contrary to the conditions of human life. Claire Lehmann 24 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
The Rittenhouse Trial: A Legal Scholar Responds Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. 23 Nov 2021 · 16 min read
Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice A true and sincere confession of one’s actual sins and cruelties is a courageous act that leaves one vulnerable and exposed. Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2021 · 16 min read
The Enemy of My Enemy But let’s remain clear in our minds what they really stand for, because sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out, in the long run, to be just another enemy. Robert Tracinski 22 Nov 2021 · 8 min read
The Vanishing of Peng Shuai Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual. Aaron Sarin 20 Nov 2021 · 6 min read
On Pleasurable Beliefs This erosion of trust has created an epistemic crisis that makes it difficult to defend a position, because one’s sources of information can always be called into question. Thomas Harper 19 Nov 2021 · 12 min read
Flying Cars: What, How, When, and Why? Even though electric and self-driving cars have yet to saturate the market, dozens of companies are at various stages of launching flying cars in a variety of models. Randall Mayes 18 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
The Cold War’s Morbid Sage: Theodor W. Adorno and the Philosophy of 'Post-Existence' Adorno was smuggling a work of social analysis full of difficult philosophical references into his readers’ reach by disguising it as literature. Philipp Felsch 17 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
India’s Increasingly Despotic Crackdown on Journalists The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots. Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane 16 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Equity Concerns Lead to a Mass-Firing of Museum Volunteers The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges. Robert Cherry 15 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
The Temptations of Tyranny When Shigalyov, one of the revolutionaries in Dostoevsky’s Demons, lays out his “system of world organization,” he admits that he got “entangled in my own data.” Confronted with the brutal logic of his idealism, he is forced to concede that his conclusion “directly contradicts the original idea from which Peter Hughes 13 Nov 2021 · 8 min read
