Mediocrity for All!
The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete.
Steve Salerno
· 10 min read
What Comes After Capitalism?
Milanovic suggests that these two developmental histories—gradual and revolutionary—give rise to the two distinctive models of capitalism in the world today: “Liberal meritocratic capitalism” in the West, and one-party “political capitalism” in countries like China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Ethiopia.
Samuel Hammond
· 9 min read
Experiments in Nurturing Classroom Curiosity
In a classroom, curiosity should be sacred, because it motivates the pursuit of knowledge even when that includes ugly truths.
Megan Gafford
· 7 min read
Are Canadians Becoming More Racist? This Week's Election Proved the Opposite
Even if one accepts the Star’s generous tally of right-wing protestors at the pictured event—“about 15 people”—the conceit that “hate fills Edmonton’s streets” is ludicrous.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Higher Education's Medievalist Moral Panic
Medievalists of Color promptly issued a statement of support, describing Ramboran-Olm as “a woman of color in an organization so dominated by whiteness that it has not yet ceased referring to itself by a name that attracts and empowers white supremacists.”
Charlotte Allen
· 13 min read
The New York Post Whitewashes the Plight of Egypt's Copts
The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.
Samuel Tadros
· 9 min read
The Defenestration of Domingo
Domingo’s entrepreneurial drive has been as untiring as his stage career.
Heather Mac Donald
· 16 min read
Rich Like Me: How Assortative Mating Is Driving Income Inequality
The top decile of young male earners have been much less likely to marry young women who are in the bottom decile of female earners.
Branko Milanovic
· 9 min read
PODCAST 58: Professor Brian Kalt—US Constitutional Law Expert—on the 25th Amendment
Brian Kalt, an expert on US constitutional law and the presidency, talks to Jonathan Kay about the 25th Amendment and whether it can be used to remove a president. Professor Kalt recently published a book called Unable: The Law, Politics, and Limits of Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment.
Quillette, Brian Kalt
· 1 min read
China's Looming Class Struggle
Being able to improve the lives of the people was always seen as a critical element assuring the Imperial “mandate of heaven.”
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Ramallah For Beginners
Many of the most renowned symbols that unify Palestinians are connected to political revolutionaries.
Michael Humeniuk
· 9 min read
Against Research Ethics Committees
The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.
Paul Oslington
· 13 min read
Why White Privilege is Wrong—Part 2
The problem with white privilege is its mono-causal disposition (“one-thing-ism”).
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 15 min read
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular
The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.
Steve Jacobs
· 8 min read
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism
China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.
Zaid Jilani
· 8 min read