Democratic Socialism Is a Scam
The failure of pundits to discern between democratic socialism and Nordic social democracy is not for a lack of transparency on the part of DSA.
Giancarlo Sopo
· 5 min read
The Decline of the Humanities and What to Do About It
Assessing the genesis of these problems requires a broad historical background understanding, because sociology stands at the nexus of the social sciences and the humanities.
Lachlann Tierney
· 9 min read
The Infantilisation of Black America
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
Tosin Akintola
· 8 min read
Britain's Populist Revolt
Britain has produced a Brexit debate that is utterly dry, sterile, and completely lacking in imagination.
Matthew Goodwin
· 22 min read
Who Is to Blame for Haiti's Problems?
More than anywhere else, hope exists in environmental restoration and a healthy international credit.
Arthur Cook
· 12 min read
The Death of the Author and the End of Empathy
The Nation’s editors are now taking aim at language itself, reducing the complexity of human communication to a primitive understanding of words.
Heather Mac Donald
· 7 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read
Toxic Masculinity and Gender Equity in the Australian Defence Force
If the intentions of senior military leadership are not so self-aggrandising and opportunistic, then they are at least ignorant of the underlying dynamics and complexities of gender equality in an environment as unique as the military.
Luke J. Graham
· 8 min read
Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers
Gatekeeping is not about saying “yes” or “no” straight-up.
Libby DownUnder
· 12 min read
Cultural Appropriation and the Children of ‘Shōgun’
The panic over cultural appropriation seeks to stigmatise many wonderful works of popular fiction.
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read
My Social Media Suicide Note
“There’s no better time than now to delete.” (Position this one against a background of a man in canoe swimming away to a proxy of freedom.)
JD Jagiello
· 9 min read
Inducing People's Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
Katy Barnett
· 18 min read
Liberals Have Compromised Their Values — Interview with Ali A. Rizvi
Europeans challenged their own religion during the Enlightenment, and we’re all benefiting from their efforts today. But when non-Europeans want to do the same, it’s ‘Islamophobia’?
Maarten Boudry, Ali A. Rizvi
· 17 min read
Burying a Child
Societies the world over have had to adapt to high rates of infant and child mortality, developing beliefs and social traditions to mitigate the impact of seeing so many of their offspring die
William Buckner
· 10 min read
Unmaking Affirmative Action
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.
Stephen T. Asma
· 11 min read