Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist
In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.
Samuel Kronen
· 29 min read
Houses of Horrors
In some former British colonies, confronting the dispossession and murder of native peoples has prompted efforts at apology and restitution.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Race and False Hate Crime Narratives
Press reports refer to activists condemning “anti-Asian racism” and fighting anti-Asian “hate.”
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives
The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.
Sara Cederberg
· 10 min read
Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values
The self-selection bias of immigrants does not dilute the story.
Manu Sarna
· 6 min read
Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Brian Stewart
· 11 min read
Mailer and the Second Wavers
“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.
Charlotte Allen
· 31 min read
Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online?
It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.
Ray Scott Percival
· 11 min read
Fifty Years of Fear and Loathing
Finding out the truth about any aspect of Hunter Thompson’s life is frustrating given his propensity for self-mythologising.
David S. Wills
· 14 min read
Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal
Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists have been far more successful at dragging the country into a culture war than improving the everyday life of ordinary Scots.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 7 min read
Podcast 141: Psychiatrist Andrew Lustig on the Conspiracist Internet Subculture of ‘Gangstalking’
Quillette’s Jonathan Kay speaks to Canadian researcher Andrew Lustig about his research on the web-based communities of individuals who believe they are surrounded by evidence of an enormous “gangstalking” conspiracy, involving dozens or even hundreds of individuals, aimed at causing them to become insane or commit suicide.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
Clifton Ross
· 10 min read
The Enduring Relevance of Czesław Miłosz’s ‘The Captive Mind’
It is into such pathologies that The Captive Mind delves, and why it has such application to our time.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read
Raising Beef Cattle
It’s hard to imagine a more inaccurate description of the peace and contentment so apparent in this pastoral scene.
Tom Blanton
· 16 min read
We Can Revisit (And Even Replace) the Classic Books We Teach Children—Without Cancelling Them
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read