Unpopular Speech and the Shaping of the First Amendment
Schenck and Masses provided opportunities for two judges to set the foundations of First Amendment doctrine for many years to come.
Jak Allen
· 9 min read
Racial Disparities and the High Cost of Low Debates
Ideological intolerance in academia and the media has dramatically narrowed the range of ‘acceptable’ ideas, beliefs, and even topics of discussion.
Ben Wilterdink
· 15 min read
On Quasi-Religious Appeals to the Judgment of History
“People (mostly liberals) tend to say, ‘You’re on the wrong side of history’ about social issues that are breaking their way.
Bonny Brooks
· 7 min read
Man of Yesterday: Karl Marx and His Place in History
Marx endures not for his relevance, but because his dense writings offer endless material for academic sermonising.
Robert Darby
· 9 min read
Liberalism, Classical and Egalitarian
These modern classical liberals have a diverse array of opinions on a wide array of issues. Summarizing them all would be impossible.
Matt McManus
· 15 min read
Against the Politicisation of Museums
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
Michael Savage
· 6 min read
Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool
Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.
Sebastian Cesario
· 4 min read
The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
Does Paul Krugman Understand Intellectual Diversity?
Nicholas Phillips
· 4 min read
The Legacy of the Soixante-Huitards
There was a further fork in the road as soixante-huitards debated moving on from baiting police at protests to participating in terrorism.
Scott Hargreaves
· 6 min read
How Classical Liberalism Can Heal the Bonds of American Affection
Michael Shermer
· 8 min read
The Complicated Legacy of Colonial Contact
The effects of colonial contact, and the process of acculturation on small-scale societies, can be quite unpredictable.
William Buckner
· 8 min read
The Tragic Case of Alfie Evans
Who, after all, would wish for another case like Alfie Evans or Charlie Gard?
Matthew Scott
· 17 min read
Khalistan’s Deadly Shadow
One brought down Flight 182, a massacre that remained, until 9/11, the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of aviation.
Terry Milewski
· 19 min read
Radical Moderate: The Struggle for Martin Luther King's Legacy
If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise?
Robert Showah
· 17 min read