Demoted and Placed on Probation
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
Stuart Reges
· 14 min read
It’s Time to Pay for Social Media
Breaking up the tech giants would interrupt the network effects that make their products so valuable in the first place.
Tristan Flock
· 8 min read
My University’s Plan for a Brave New World
The plan’s introduction, “Jobs as Central to Life,” starts by praising the liberal arts. But like Hamlet’s insincere Player Queen, it doth protest too much.
Jacob Howland
· 6 min read
PODCAST 70: Harvard history professor James Hankins talks about his new book on Renaissance Italy
Harvard Historian James Hankins on what the great Renaissance humanists can teach us about virtue and statecraft. Plus: Why so many get Machiavelli wrong.
Quillette, James Hankins
· 1 min read
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
Laws and Values
Scott Z. Burns’s political thriller ‘The Report’ is a careful examination of the CIA’s interrogation methods.
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
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