The Lawrence Mead Affair
If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.
Noah Carl
· 6 min read
Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (war, famine, pestilence, and death) have not completely disappeared—that would be a miracle, not progress. But the world is incomparably richer than it was just two centuries ago.
Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley
· 8 min read
The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?
The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.
Shay Khatiri
· 7 min read
Is China the Governance of the Future?
Jacques is one of the most enthusiastic boosters of China in the West, and his book aims to show that an increasingly dynamic China will soon lay a claim to global hegemony.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
PODCAST 115: Stuart Buck on How COVID-19 Has Exposed the Shortfalls of Scientific Peer Review
Jonathan Kay talks to scientific transparency advocate Stuart Buck about how the rapid pace of COVID-19 science has exposed longstanding problems with the methods we use to validate scientific research
Quillette
· 1 min read
How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.
John Young
· 9 min read
For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 8 min read
George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'
Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
The Prescience of Shelby Steele
A great writer shows us how to think rather than telling us what to think.
Samuel Kronen
· 18 min read
Sex and the American Presidency
What does all this have to do with the sexual follies in the White House? Like the Bolshevik Revolution, sex is nothing if not leveling.
Seth Greenland
· 19 min read
Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like
Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.
Scott Newgent
· 8 min read
A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity
I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.
Austin Schue
· 13 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
Benny Morris
· 20 min read
At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Time and Perceptions of Trustworthiness—the Row over a Novel Study
A society worth having rests on our willingness to co-operate, to be able to depend a little on the kindness and civility of strangers.
Rosalind Arden
· 9 min read