"Like" This Essay — The Case Against Social Media
Social media isn’t the cause of these crises in our culture; rather, there is a sense that it has betrayed its higher purpose.
Timothy Cootes
· 6 min read
FBI Director Comey: Straight Shooter or Feckless Careerist? How About Neither
FBI Director Comey's call not to charge Hillary Clinton aimed to avoid political turmoil in a charged climate.
Deion Kathawa
· 5 min read
Flag-Shaming in Response to Terrorism
Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap.
Jamie Palmer
· 4 min read
Why Isn’t Sexual Slavery a Feminist Priority?
Their lives were destroyed, and their lives will remain destroyed if we don’t say anything. To bring back their rights, we must speak up.
Keiran Harris
· 6 min read
Policing Takes a Toll on Officers Too
Police organizations had better start to pay more attention to the psychological health of these men and women who serve.
John Violanti
· 5 min read
The Regressive Left and Its Word Games
When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
Remain vs Leave: Elite Technocracy vs Liberal Democracy
Brexit: A democratic choice, despite economic uncertainty, challenging technocracy, and promoting accountability and sovereignty.
Jeffrey Ketland
· 7 min read
In Praise of Ambivalence — “Young” Feminism, Gender Identity and Free Speech
It’s about the role of ambivalence in contemporary politics, focusing on an emerging strand of feminist politics.
Brian D Earp
· 35 min read
Forget de Botton's Advice — Why Lower Expectations Won't Help Your Marriage
Marriage is casting a vote for a candidate who will help us create the kind of life we can enjoy and value.
Noam Shpancer
· 7 min read
UK Labour's Failure to Understand Its Voters Has Sent It into Existential Crisis
The real task is to regain popular trust and a place in the life of ordinary people.
Adrian Pabst
· 4 min read
Why Trump Is Right About Immigration
The Center for Immigration Studies notes that “more than three million new legal and illegal immigrants settled in the United States in 2014 and 2015 — a 39 percent increase over the prior two years.
Deion Kathawa
· 9 min read
Breaking Down Brexit: How the UK Voted
At 72%, turnout was extraordinarily high by the standards of recent general elections, but especially in the pro-Leave areas.
Paul Webb
· 4 min read
On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Safe University
There was no reason anything should go wrong; she had her notes, and they had been screened by the department chair to ensure that they contained nothing offensive.
Henry Rambow
· 11 min read
Regaining Culture in Post-Society America
Every other great nation takes care to cultivate certain traditional values in its people.
Julian Friedland
· 7 min read