The Growth Dilemma
The prospect of stagnating incomes amidst ruinous pension and other costs comprise a toxic cocktail with potentially profound de-stabilizing effects.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
'The Report' Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA's Interrogation Methods
As unpleasant as this kind of harsh treatment was, defenders of EITs maintained that it fell short of torture.
Michael J. Totten
· 10 min read
Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric
A more aggressive use of controlled burns might have given firefighters a chance to control this season’s bushfires.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists
Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.
Kaveh Shahrooz
· 5 min read
Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Unlike the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooter or the 2019 Poway synagogue shooter, the suspects in these attacks weren’t white supremacists.
Ralph Leonard
· 7 min read
The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down
Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?” Fallon celebrated the notion that white men are losing their prominence in contemporary American literature and that the best books being published in America
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read
Ricky Gervais, Man of the People
If courage had a face, it would be a slightly overweight, pasty British multi-millionaire drinking a pint.
Bridget Phetasy
· 3 min read
Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis
Live your own life, worry about your own problems, and let others worry about theirs.
Bill Frezza
· 7 min read
PODCAST 69: Forensic psychologist Armando Simón on the risks of going to Mars
Armando Simón, forensic psychologist and science writer, talks to Jonathan Kay about why it would be a mistake to try and put a man on Mars. Simón recently set out the case against a manned space flight to Mars in Quillette.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
Mikael Jalving
· 8 min read
Reasons to be Hopeful
The best cure for progress shame is a rationally optimistic attitude with which we can then push civilisation further forward.
Tony Morley
· 6 min read
Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?
Second Wave feminists didn’t care very much about being nice to those outside of their movement.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read