Libertarian Limitations Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas. Marco den Ouden 12 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Podcast #222: Journalist John Colapinto on the Tragic Tale of David Reimer, The Boy Who Was Raised a Girl David Reimer's story is a cautionary tale of what can happen when you mess with a child's gender identity. Quillette 12 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Academia’s Missing Men Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous. Heather Mac Donald 11 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
A Cartographer for the Ages In the eleventh instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes how Samuel de Champlain fundamentally redirected France’s transatlantic colonial project Greg Koabel 9 Sep 2023 · 22 min read
For a Time, a Pit Bull Gave Me Back My Son If I couldn’t openly love him, I would love what he loved. Steve Salerno 8 Sep 2023 · 12 min read
Israel’s Everywoman at War Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity. Michael Oren 8 Sep 2023 · 16 min read
Ending the Hunger Games New pharmaceuticals appear to offer a genuine solution to the problem of excess appetite, that uncontrollable urge to eat more than we need to that keeps so many of us fat. Iona Italia 7 Sep 2023 · 25 min read
Whistling in the Dark Apprehensions of dog whistles and code words in political discourse are a desperate rearguard strategy to maintain a moral high ground. George Case 6 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
Unconscious Bias in Medicine: A Canard Evidence that clinical decisions are driven by unconscious bias remains conspicuously lacking. Stewart Justman 5 Sep 2023 · 8 min read
Our Lost Classical Learning The Western canon was not an unchanging set of texts, but an ongoing conversation that lasted thousands of years—enabling each generation to build on the intellectual heritage of the past. Brian Kaller 5 Sep 2023 · 7 min read
But is it a Bernini? A Tale of Contested Identity in the Art World How the bronze crucifix in the Art Gallery of Ontario got from seventeenth-century Rome to twenty-first century Toronto is an intriguing tale, but it is a narrative filled with gaps. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 4 Sep 2023 · 11 min read
Remembering ‘Exodus’ A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65. Kevin Mims 4 Sep 2023 · 18 min read
Misreading Middle-Earth: Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader Fantasy is more popular than ever, and this is the direct consequence of Tolkien’s success. But the genre has survived by adapting, and in an age of secularism, that process has involved evaporating the religious themes Tolkien cared about so deeply. Josh Allan 2 Sep 2023 · 10 min read
