The Hysterical Campus
When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry.
Patriotic Reeducation
Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.
Post-Truth and the Decline of Swedish Education
Sweden has gone the farthest toward abandoning a knowledge-based core curriculum and a pedagogy in which students internalize and learn to apply knowledge under the teacher’s instruction and supervision.
Breaking the Norm
We now treat people who dissent from the progressive orthodoxy about certain offenses as being no different from the people who actually committed the offenses in the first place.
The Liberal Empire
The nationalist’s nemesis is not the proponent of liberalism or progressivism, but the imperialist.
Against Thank-You Cards
Grinding out note after note of identical, monotonous pro forma gratitude is not a pleasurable pastime, nor even a merely dull one; it is a good old-fashioned nuisance.
Anti-Imperialism and Apologetics for Murder
The anti-imperialist Left’s mistake has not always been its opposition to Western policies, it has been its reflexive idealisation of the West’s opponents.
A Better Theory of the Human Soul
Beginning in the mid-2000s, the momentum toward an increasingly open and liberal world order began to falter, then went into reverse.
Barefoot over the Serengeti — A Visit with David Read
Having lived and worked in rural East Africa for 16 years, I find that Read’s stories ring true, whereas Hemingway’s ring hollow.
Social Justice in the Shadows
Some of the greatest lessons I learned in actual social justice came from my parents, even if they didn’t use the term “social justice.”
Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
Headline Rhymes
Stereotypes Are Often Harmful — and Accurate
Stereotyping begets many social problems, but you seldom solve a problem by mischaracterizing its nature.
The Black Chic Wave
To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.