From the Editor
Social media has sped time up. In the world of Twitter, outrage is instantaneous, and deliberation impossible.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read
Believe (Some) Women
#MeToo demands that all women must be believed — except where their stories upset the prevailing narrative.
Karen Yossman
· 6 min read
The Customer Is Not Always Right: A Reply to Elliot Berkman
We have probably done more to encourage business crises and immoral managerial behaviours than prevent them, a fairly insane outcome considering how often we speak of corporate social responsibility.
David Weitzner
· 10 min read
"Dear Millennial...."
Dear Millennial, I am a 60-year-old white male without a college education. Make of that information what you will. I can lay no claim to be the least racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic person you’ve ever met, but I do try to treat people—regardless of their creed, color,
Kevin Mims
· 12 min read
#MeToo and Journalism: An Interview with Daphne Merkin
Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
The Hysterical Campus
When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.
Heather Mac Donald
· 11 min read
Patriotic Reeducation
Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
'Post-Truth' and the Decline of Swedish Education
Sweden has gone the farthest toward abandoning a knowledge-based core curriculum and a pedagogy in which students internalize and learn to apply knowledge under the teacher’s instruction and supervision.
Magnus Henrekson and Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
Breaking the Norm
We now treat people who dissent from the progressive orthodoxy about certain offenses as being no different from the people who actually committed the offenses in the first place.
Jamie Kilstein
· 8 min read
Nationalism and Liberal Empire
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
Against Thank You Cards
Grinding out note after note of identical, monotonous pro forma gratitude is not a pleasurable pastime, nor even a merely dull one; it is a good old-fashioned nuisance.
Daniel Payne
· 5 min read
'Anti-Imperialism' and Apologetics for Murder
The anti-imperialist Left’s mistake has not always been its opposition to Western policies, it has been its reflexive idealisation of the West’s opponents.
Ben Sixsmith
· 11 min read
A Better Theory of the Human Soul
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse.
Francis Fukuyama
· 11 min read
Barefoot Over the Serengeti: A Visit with David Read
Having lived and worked in rural East Africa for 16 years, I find that Read’s stories ring true, whereas Hemingway’s ring hollow.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 12 min read