Sweden's Sexual Assault Crisis Presents a Feminist Paradox
Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.
The Spirit of Centrism
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
The Case for Contrarianism
Without such a process occurring, outsiders will be unable to look at the market and garner any reliable knowledge about the state of the world.
Universal Basic Income — A Threat to Tyranny?
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
E Pluribus Unum — From Many, One
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
Nationalism and Liberalism — The European Paradox
There would be calls for interventions, the topic would be urgently raised at the Security Council —and there might even be talks of sanctions or the arming of moderate rebels.
Terrorism and White Privilege
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
Read Houellebecq for a Free Mind
Houellebecq has grave doubts about the net effect of the sexual revolution on human well-being.
Universalism Is Not Centrism
Ideologies are like organisms, and tracing their origins back to common ancestors starts with a system of classification based on careful observation and comparison.
Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle — Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us.
The Germaine Greer-Emma Dilemma
Greer herself emphasized this point in drawing a distinction between “reform” feminism and “revolutionary” feminism.
The Noble Savage Speaks
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.