Postmodern Theory Returns to Continental Europe
Faculty in continental Europe already overwhelming lean left in the social sciences and humanities
Vincent Debierre
· 9 min read
Three Justifications for Liberalism
The fact that the complex history of liberalism is largely ignored by both its opponents and its alleged friends
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
A Liberal’s Case for Conservatives in History Departments
The liberal-to-leftist makeup of the discipline significantly influences the questions historians ask, the answers that we privilege, and the ways we teach and engage with the public.
Joseph Stieb
· 6 min read
In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW
John Nerst suggests that what is actually at issue is whether the discussion of the racial IQ gap is a matter of science or of politics.
Jacob Falkovich
· 13 min read
“It Has Come to My Attention…” How Institutional Complaints Procedures are Being Weaponized
My cardinal sin was to publish a book three years ago called The Welfare Trait that summarised data linking personality and welfare dependency.
Adam Perkins
· 7 min read
The Folly of a Racialized Criminal Justice Reform Debate
America has the highest rate of incarceration in the world and—in state prisons—blacks are incarcerated at five times the rate of whites."
Joshua Hunter
· 7 min read
Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?
For those who believe that gender is a social construct, and there are no differences between men and women’s brains, this paper is something of a reality check.
Toby Young
· 11 min read
Jordan Peterson and the Failure of the Left
The hyperbolic uniformity of the leftist attack on Peterson is emblematic of the growing tendency to reduce left-of-center thought to the status of a rigidly simplistic ideology.
Carol Horton
· 10 min read
‘Indigenous Ways of Knowing’: Magical Thinking and Spirituality by Any One Name
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.
Josh Dehaas
· 7 min read
Should the New York Times Hire a Radical?
If 6 percent of American voters identify as socialists, but only 5 percent as Never Trump conservatives, you might very well conclude that there’s more demand for columns about burning the Constitution than reigning in fiscal deficits.
Nicholas Phillips
· 7 min read
The Importance of Cultural Nationalism in an Era of Distrust
What will happen when the melting pot of national identity gives way to a salad bowl bursting with myriad unassimilated tribes?
Alexander Zubatov
· 10 min read
Postmodernism and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
Postmodernism is devouring the liberal arts. Such a deeply entrenched cultural problem cannot be solved by top-down intervention.
Velvet Favretto
· 6 min read
Kelly Sadler and a Loss of Perspective
Saddler’s many critics claim that the lines Kelly Sadler and her boss have crossed are easy to identify and avoid.
Carlos Hiraldo
· 5 min read
Growing Up in a Progressive Utopia
Everyone would be equal in every way and we would all ride our unicorns to the end of the rainbow. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world we live in this one.
Konstantin Kisin
· 5 min read
The Emergence and Rise of Postmodern Conservatism
The locus of many conservative criticisms of postmodernism seems to be twofold.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read