The Best Picture Nominees, 2024
A look at the ten nominees for this year’s Best Picture Oscar.
Allan Stratton
· 17 min read
Intersectionality’s Cosmic Inquisitor
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back
Jonathan Kay
· 36 min read
Beware the Little Lambs
Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else.
Ben Turtel
· 7 min read
Environmentalism Should Not Be Intersectional
Sustainable progress requires that ecological concerns be taken seriously and addressed rationally.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 12 min read
Getting Better All the Time
Hannah Ritchie’s new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future.
Sean Welsh
· 12 min read
Narratives, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Government data about German antisemitism, widely cited in the English-language press, is wrong.
Andrew Hammel
· 12 min read
The Road Out of Nowhere
A new book celebrates Springsteen’s stark 1982 classic, ‘Nebraska.’
Matt Hanson
· 6 min read
To Winter, With Love
The cold allows me to feel alive.
Marilyn Simon
· 7 min read
Chaos at the End of History
Even in rights-based and law-bound democratic societies, people tend to find new things to struggle over.
Matt Johnson
· 28 min read
Is the CRISPR Revolution Finally Coming to Europe?
The European Parliament has at last voted to make it easier to grow and consume genetically engineered food. But the road ahead remains bumpy.
Steven E. Cerier, Jon Entine
· 13 min read
The Limits of Good Intentions
The payday-loan debate revisited.
Aaron Hanna
· 22 min read
The Odyssey of Classical Education
Classical education instills precisely the skills and habits most sorely needed in society today.
Robert C. Thornett
· 8 min read
Is Life Coaching Just Modern Sophistry?
The popularity of a trend does not necessarily make it ethical.
Andrew White
· 13 min read