Preparations, Not Reparations
If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.
Eric Silver, John Iceland
· 7 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Susie Linfield
· 21 min read
Concealed Carry
For more than five centuries, the humble pocket has changed the way we equip ourselves to face the world.
Virginia Postrel
· 7 min read
Hamas Cheerleaders Are All Over Instagram
Since 10/7, young social-media users have been inundated with memes that present terrorists as social justice champions.
Christina Buttons
· 11 min read
Humanism and Its Discontents
Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes.
Robert Huddleston
· 10 min read
The Great Napoleonic Novel
“It’s a sin to want to die for a nation.”
Josh Allan
· 8 min read
The Return of Terror’s Architect
The restoration of a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow illuminates the gulf that now divides Russian society.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Anti-Enlightenment Thinking, Past and Present
The Enlightenment was as remarkable as it was unexpected, but it led directly to the benefits we enjoy today.
Adam Wakeling
· 9 min read
The Radical Humanitarian Doctrine
Those who demand an end to all suffering at any cost exhibit a utopian foolishness.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 10 min read
The Return of the Creationists
How can we expect political sense or reason from people who cannot distinguish empirical reality from ancient myth?
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 4 min read
Unrealistic Realism on Ukraine
Moral relativism, and its equally dubious corollary of moral equivalence, too often mars contemporary Realists’ conceptions of political realities.
Borys M. Kowalsky
· 13 min read
United Against the Iroquois
In the fourteenth instalment of his series on the history of Canada, Greg Koabel describes Champlain’s military alliance with France’s new Innu, Algonquin, and Wendat trading partners.
Greg Koabel
· 24 min read
Gaza, Islam, and the West
The Hamas atrocities of October 7th have refocussed attention on the place of a consequential voting bloc in Western democracies.
RJ Smith
· 7 min read
Joseph Boyden Isn’t Indigenous. But his Historical Fiction Is Still Worth Reading
The author’s widely celebrated 2013 novel, ‘The Orenda,’ helped educate Canadians about their country’s colonial roots. It shouldn’t be cast into literary oblivion just because Boyden misrepresented his ancestry.
Andy Lamey
· 34 min read