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The Soviets and the JFK Conspiracy Theorists

We can learn far more from the files still under wraps in Russia and Belarus.

Fred Litwin 27 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

Effective vs. Pathological Altruism

What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?

Jonathan Anomaly 26 Sep 2018 · 5 min read

Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct

These are the books you should read with great ostentation at sidewalk bistros, corner restaurants, and in doctors’ waiting rooms.

Kevin Mims 26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read

#MeToo Casualty Ian Buruma Was the Editor We Needed

I’m not the only reader left longing for an editor who displays a lordly disregard for public opinion

Colin Marshall 26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read

Forget Nature Versus Nurture. Nature Has Won

Plomin tries to present this cascade of new information about the genetic influence on human behavior in a way that will positively affect human behavior – but his own work suggests the impact of such arguments will be limited.

Gregory Cochran 25 Sep 2018 · 7 min read

How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life

#MeToo was an expression of solidarity but there is no solidarity for the accused.

Stephen Elliott 25 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

Amidst the YouTube Junkies of MythCon, I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism

This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement.

Jonathan Kay 24 Sep 2018 · 11 min read

Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex

The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’

Renee Gerlich 24 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

The Fragility of the Liberal World Order

For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.

Doug Stokes 23 Sep 2018 · 9 min read

Anthony Bourdain vs. the Tyranny of Wellness

The cult of wellness commands: Thou shalt not contaminate the sacred body.

Jenai Engelhard 22 Sep 2018 · 5 min read

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs

Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.

Adam Perkins 22 Sep 2018 · 10 min read