A Flawed Defense of Safe Spaces in the New York Times
Ironically, what is really needed is the restoration of the entire college campus as a safe space for people of all perspectives.
James Huffman
· 4 min read
In Defence of the Past
Whether it is because we got things wrong or because we got them right, the past is our servant, the key to a richer future and higher states of consciousness.
RJ Smith
· 6 min read
Beyond the Hypatia Affair: Philosophers Blocking the Way of Inquiry
If some faction of philosophers are able to declare an issue decided—over screams of dissent from other philosophers—then we can expect others to follow the same playbook.
Spencer Case
· 12 min read
PODCAST 52: Yale Law School Professor Anthony Kronman on the Crisis in American Higher Education
Yale Law School professor Anthony Kronman talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book The Assault on American Excellence in which he laments the decline of aristocratic values in America’s elite universities. Photo courtesy of Yale University.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Politics of Procreation
The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
The Frankfurt School and the Allure of Submission
For Fromm, Horkheimer, and Adorno, this project could only end in a desire for mass death. This is because, in a nihilistic sense, death is the ultimate form of order, stripped of all the anxieties and challenges which come with life.
Matt McManus
· 9 min read
No, Jonathan Haidt is Not Like a Slavery Apologist
The unhinged reasoning in Fairbanks’s essay invites an overcorrection. It would be easy—and tendentious—to reverse her argument. The Left are the real heirs of the proslavery tradition—intolerant aggression disguised as aggrieved fragility, etc.
Adam Rowe
· 6 min read
A Letter From Hong Kong
The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.
Peter Baehr
· 7 min read
Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne
The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour.
William Tomos Edwards
· 5 min read
'Virtue Signalling' May Annoy Us. But Civilization Would Be Impossible Without It
Virtue signaling includes the best of human instincts, and the worst of human instincts.
Geoffrey Miller
· 9 min read
Keynes Has Left the Building: Remembering the 1976 Speech That Changed Modern Britain
Callaghan’s speech, a paean to the virtues of austerity economics several decades before the 2008 financial crisis, was a watershed moment in British politics.
Andrew Hindmoor
· 11 min read
A New Republic of Letters
Now, of course, letter-writing is dead, replaced by emails, texts, and social media. But we have lost something along the way—our social media feeds are often filled with drivel and do not provide an appropriate forum for long-form, constructive conversation and disagreement.
Daniel James Sharp
· 11 min read
The Feminist Case for Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend
A UBI system would do far more than any other policy proposed by the current set of Democratic candidates to reduce the vulnerability of such women.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.
Lindsay Shepherd, Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Why I Don’t Live in Fear of White Supremacists
If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology.
Zaid Jilani
· 7 min read