Leaders Are Worse Than Average
In every political system, one hopes that the cream rises, that the rulers or governors will be the best and the brightest.
Crispin Sartwell
· 8 min read
Is the My Little Pony Fan Community Really Full of Nazis?
White nationalists and the far-Right seemed to be ascendant in 2016 after Donald Trump won an unexpected victory in the US presidential election.
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
Interpreting Italo Svevo—When Literary Orthodoxy Misses The Mark
Marx’s ideas have been debunked by economists; Freud’s ideas have been debunked by psychologists.
Dario Maestripieri
· 11 min read
The Mob That Came After Me Is Turning on Itself. When Will This End? Who Does This Help?
One of the justifications offered by the cultural-appropriation mob that came after me is that you cannot speak for others unless you are the other.
Hal Niedzviecki
· 8 min read
Is Foster Care Racist?
The complaints of structural racism and a desire to abolish foster care will sound familiar to anyone who has been listening to the recent debate about policing.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
The Need for Scientific Caution in the New Space Race
On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s facility at Cape Canaveral. Hidden in the roar of the thrusters was the crack of a starting gun for the second era of human expansion: The era of private crewed space exploration was on. During the last
Michael Shilo DeLay and Anastasia Bendebury
· 7 min read
The Outing of 'Lady G': Humiliating a Closeted Gay Republican in the Name of LGBT Rights
Progressive LGBT activists who abandon their values so they can go all in on a digital hatefest are no better than the bigots they purport to oppose.
Brad Polumbo
· 6 min read
Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History
And this neo-totalitarianism has learned from the past: It has its inquisitions, its auto-da-fes, its purges and cultural revolutions, reeducation and self-criticism sessions, and above all the ostracization and ultimate erasure of dissidents.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 5 min read
COVID-19 and the College Football Debate
Most healthcare experts basically agree that there is still too much uncertainty about COVID-19 to play football safely this fall.
Daniel McGraw
· 13 min read
Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct
A consensus has grown in the UK among Conservatives and much of Labour that it needs nuclear not just for climate change but also to reduce its dependence on imported natural gas.
Michael Shellenberger
· 13 min read
Rethinking Health Disparities
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 11 min read
Marie Antoinette: Figure of Myth, Magnet for Lies
Marie Antoinette was not entirely innocent in her lifetime; in fact, she was guilty of many extravagances.
Matthew Fraser
· 16 min read
‘Things You Should Be Aware Of’: A Pandemic Prose Poem
It’s more important to fight racism than to stop the spread of the disease.
Stephen Elliott
· 5 min read
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution
The past is raked over for imperfections as left-modernist ideologues render the most grievance-based interpretation of history imaginable.
Eric Kaufmann
· 22 min read
The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery
So in the end, slavery, the slave trade and imperialism were not only morally disgusting but also of dubious economic value.
Matthew Lesh
· 8 min read