Whatever Happened to Light Verse? A paean to a disappearing and misunderstood literary tradition. Kevin Mims 21 Jan 2023 · 20 min read
Podcast #206: Johnny Depp vs. Amber Heard: The Definitive Postmortem from an Unlikely Expert Podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to literary journalist Charlotte Allen about her self-confessed “secret appetite” for trashy Hollywood stories—and her exhaustive Quillette story about Johnny Depp’s successful defamation suit against his ex-wife. Quillette 21 Jan 2023 · 1 min read
A Bore of a Blockbuster Next time, one hopes, James Cameron will focus as much on the story he tells as the means he uses to tell it. Allan Stratton 19 Jan 2023 · 7 min read
Vices of Mainstream Feminism The movement no longer spares a thought for women who fail to claim additional oppressed identities. Holly Lawford-Smith 18 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
Scenes from a Marriage In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right? Charlotte Allen 18 Jan 2023 · 70 min read
Hope, Trust, and Religious Faith In the 1990s, religious Americans embraced science’s re-definition of spirituality. They would be unwise to repeat this mistake. Ronald W. Dworkin 17 Jan 2023 · 10 min read
A World Without Affirmative Action We need creative thinking and real problem solving to address inequality in education. Harvey Silverglate 16 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
Experiences with Suicide Coping with a uniquely painful kind of bereavement. Art Kusserow 16 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius In ‘The Philosophy of Modern Song,’ Dylan contemplates himself and the art form of which he is the acknowledged master. Benjamin Kerstein 13 Jan 2023 · 12 min read
A Mob Stormed a Feminist Event at McGill Law School—in Defence of Gender Justice, of Course Intended as an expression of trans rights, the fracas instead illustrated why many LGB feminists want to escape their ‘forced teaming’ with trans activists. Jonathan Kay 12 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
A Report From the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference The urgency of our mission was reflected in the list of attendees—many of whom had been laid off, mobbed, or ostracized because of their research. Elizabeth Weiss 11 Jan 2023 · 14 min read
Fables of the Deconstruction Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off. George Case 10 Jan 2023 · 7 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
A Puritanical Assault on the English Language Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it. Andrew Doyle 6 Jan 2023 · 19 min read
Democracy’s Trenches The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken. John Lloyd 4 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
