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Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist

The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.

Coel Hellier

13 Mar 2024 · 12 min read

Nationalist Self-Hatred

The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right.

Matt Johnson

12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read

The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin

The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.

Michael H. Bernstein

11 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Katie Herzog’s Plan B

In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing.

Katherine Brodsky

11 Mar 2024 · 9 min read

Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization

The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.

Jay Sophalkalyan

10 Mar 2024 · 15 min read

A Love Letter to the Theatre

An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’

Hannah Gal

10 Mar 2024 · 12 min read

Attila Invictus

In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Herbert Bushman

8 Mar 2024 · 19 min read

Identity Satiation

Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders.

Brandon McMurtrie

8 Mar 2024 · 6 min read

Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics

For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.

Alan S. Rome

8 Mar 2024 · 13 min read

The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die

Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

Kevin Mims

7 Mar 2024 · 26 min read

Unilateral Illiberalism

Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.

Brian Stewart

7 Mar 2024 · 8 min read

Immigrant Song

Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.