How an Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life
#MeToo was an expression of solidarity but there is no solidarity for the accused.
Stephen Elliott
· 11 min read
At MythCon — I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism
This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex
The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’
Renee Gerlich
· 8 min read
The Fragility of the Liberal World Order
For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.
Doug Stokes
· 9 min read
Anthony Bourdain vs the Tyranny of Wellness
The cult of wellness commands: Thou shalt not contaminate the sacred body.
Jenai Engelhard
· 5 min read
Narrow Roads of Bozo Land — How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs
Visionaries may be moody, obsessive loners but without them to provide a good idea in the first place, implementers end up working diligently to implement a faulty vision, like clockwork toys set off in the wrong direction.
Adam Perkins
· 10 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
From the Editor
Social media has sped time up. In the world of Twitter, outrage is instantaneous, and deliberation impossible.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read
Believe Some Women
#MeToo demands that all women must be believed — except where their stories upset the prevailing narrative.
Karen Yossman
· 6 min read
The Customer Is Not Always Right — A Reply to Elliot Berkman
We have probably done more to encourage business crises and immoral managerial behaviours than prevent them, a fairly insane outcome considering how often we speak of corporate social responsibility.
David Weitzner
· 10 min read
"Dear Millennial...."
Dear Millennial, I am a 60-year-old white male without a college education. Make of that information what you will. I can lay no claim to be the least racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic person you’ve ever met, but I do try to treat people—regardless of their
Kevin Mims
· 12 min read
#MeToo's Assault on Journalism — Interview with Daphne Merkin
Daphne Merkin was attacked for raising concerns about #MeToo. An interview about the movement's good and bad aspects — and why journalists who question it face professional consequences.
Jonathan Kay, Daphne Merkin
· 1 min read
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.
Heather Mac Donald
· 11 min read
Patriotic Reeducation
Chinese genocidal hatred against the Japanese simply cannot be dismissed as the bigotry of a nationalist fringe movement.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read