The Placebo Effect’s Evil Twin
The Nocebo Effect occurs when we experience pain, depression, or illness based on nothing more than negative expectations.
Michael H. Bernstein
· 8 min read
Katie Herzog’s Plan B
In a new book, Katherine Brodsky explains how members of the ‘silenced majority’ find new audiences after enduring episodes of public mobbing.
Katherine Brodsky
· 9 min read
Why Newly Independent Countries Must Reject Radical Decolonization
The contrasting histories of Singapore, Tanzania, and Sri Lanka demonstrate the dangers of attempting to erase the colonial past.
Jay Sophalkalyan
· 15 min read
A Love Letter to the Theatre
An interview with Sean Mathias, the director of a daring and original new film adaptation of ‘Hamlet.’
Hannah Gal
· 12 min read
Attila Invictus
In the eighth instalment of ‘The So-Called Dark Ages,’ Herbert Bushman describes the Huns’ increasingly violent incursions into the Eastern half of the Roman Empire.
Herbert Bushman
· 19 min read
Identity Satiation
Some rarely discussed phenomena can shed light on why the focus on identity and introspection has coincided with a rise of mental health issues, including identity disorders.
Brandon McMurtrie
· 6 min read
Raymond Aron and the Art of Politics
For Aron, politics is the art of living together, the art of the possible, and requires an “acute awareness” of the limitations of our power to influence reality.
Alan S. Rome
· 13 min read
The Amityville Horror—A 50-Year Old Lie That Won’t Die
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Kevin Mims
· 26 min read
Unilateral Illiberalism
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Immigrant Song
Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound.
George Case
· 9 min read
Cosmopolis or Bust?
In order to function, a cosmopolis must embrace both toleration and the rule of law.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
In Defence of the EU
The European Union has been overwhelmingly successful in achieving its primary mission: guaranteeing peace.
James Graham
· 13 min read
Not Everyone Who Disagrees with You Is An ‘Uncle Tom’
No one has an obligation to express, or refrain from expressing, a particular view, merely because they are part of a minority group.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 11 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic.
Pamela Paresky, Dan Schueftan
· 34 min read
On Sin and Repentance
Our secular ideas about guilt and absolution distort the language and values of Christianity.
Marilyn Simon
· 9 min read