An Open Letter — Industrial Animal Farming Must End
Infection is constant problem and most farms use large quantities of antibiotics to control it.
Francis Vergunst and Patrick Birkl
· 4 min read
When Accusations Lose Their Bite
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
The EU Is Essentially a German Empire — Peter Hitchens on Geopolitics and the Future of Europe
The European Union is essentially therefore a modern avatar of the empire, based on Richard von Kühlmann’s imperial concept of “limited sovereignty.”
Sumantra Maitra
· 9 min read
Inverted Nationalism and Orwellian Patriotism
Does inverted nationalism really influence the elite?
Spencer Case
· 10 min read
Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb — Arguments from the Classical Tradition
The Culture Wars and Beyond is an exemplary study: thorough, balanced, judicious, elegantly written, and all the better for its notably even tone and scrupulous sense of fairness.
Sandra Kotta
· 20 min read
Will They Make Coffee at Pret?
When a BBC Question Time audience member asked “Who will make our coffee in Pret?”
Derek Hopper
· 5 min read
Browsing the Tate Bookshop
The Tate Britain shop is large and there are multiple, unimpeachable shelves of books grouped into themes such as technique, art history.
Michael Clegg
· 7 min read
Laci Green, the Matrix, and the Future of Free Speech
“This is a pretty big concern of mine, I’ve felt this way for a long time, it affects my work, it affects the way I can interact with people, the things I can talk about, the people I can talk to.”
Michael Aaron
· 7 min read
Stop Using the Term "Gender"
From that perspective, it might make sense to co-opt “gender” to refer to human sexual phenotypic diversity.
Michael McConkey
· 8 min read
Cultural Appropriation Isn't Real
Being imaginative is more important for a writer than being from the “right” ethnic background or having the “right” experience.
Helen Dale
· 7 min read
A Line in the Sand in Academic Philosophy
Tuvel was criticized for not citing enough black or transgender scholars. Such a complaint could be leveled at virtually any philosophy paper.
Oliver Traldi
· 10 min read
A Hundred Years of Communism
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Emmanuel Macron Beats Marine Le Pen to Win the French Election
Between the rounds, Le Pen seemed to be nibbling away at Macron’s lead – not by much, but by enough to cause some butterflies among her opponents.
Paul Smith
· 4 min read
I've Found a Place That Makes Me Want to Swallow Its Rhetoric Whole
Sadie insisted, apropos of nothing, that she was “really a radical feminist.”
Michael Rectenwald
· 17 min read
What Eastern Bloc Dissidents Can Teach Us About Living in Truth
Living in truth doesn’t mean speaking out unthinkingly on every issue. It matters not just what we say, but how we say it.
Philip Boobbyer
· 5 min read