Do We Really Want a New Cold War?
Politicians and the commentariat keep shouting “China is not our friend!” But friendship is a good thing, the most rewarding of all human relationships.
James Hankins
· 6 min read
The Fight over Alternative Education
Bartholet’s polemic is by no means simply directed at homeschooling all by itself. It is part of a larger—and relatively recent—specific animus among progressive academics and politicians against a range of alternatives to conventional public schooling
Charlotte Allen
· 16 min read
How New Zealand Is Beating COVID-19
At the time of writing, New Zealand had reported just three new cases of COVID-19 in nine days.
Sean Welsh
· 8 min read
American Women of Different Racial Backgrounds Are Marrying Less—Why?
There has been a steady decline in US marriage rates, from 65.9 percent of adult women in 1960 to 51.1 percent in 2018.
Robert Cherry
· 8 min read
Dumbing Fascism Down, Then And Now
Stalin publicly misused the term so often, in fact, that Princeton history professor Stephen Kotkin has suggested he lacked a fundamental understanding of the word’s meaning.
Bradford H.B.
· 8 min read
Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown: An Obituary of Fred Willard
Fred Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools.
Simon Evans
· 7 min read
As Common Sense Returns to the Gender Debate, Radicals Set Upon Their Own Allies
The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read
PODCAST 91: Oxford's Thomas Hale on Measuring the Variation in Government Response to COVID-19
Thomas Hale, Associate Professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, talks to Jonathan Kay about a new research project aimed at comparing international policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Quillette
· 1 min read
Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry
Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence.
Barbara Kay
· 6 min read
Capitalism or the Climate?
Technological knowledge, fueled by capital, has allowed us to do many things categorically unlike the achievements of other species as far as we know.
Saul Zimet
· 14 min read
Cold War Now or Hot War Later
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’
“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Towards a Better Urbanism
The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.
Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky
· 12 min read
Tara Reade's Dubious Claims and Shifting Stories Show the Limits of #BelieveWomen
If Reade’s claims really do sink Biden in November, the Democrats will merely be reaping what their moral panic has sowed.
Cathy Young
· 26 min read
PODCAST 90: John Lloyd on the Geopolitical Fall-Out From the Coronavirus Crisis
John Lloyd, co-founder of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford, talks to Toby Young about the geopolitical fall-out from the coronavirus crisis. Will the Conservatives win the next UK election? Can the EU recover its authority? And is this China’s Chernobyl? John recently wrote about
Toby Young
· 1 min read