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Kremlin Cash

The Tenet media scandal and the convergence of right-wing American punditry and Russian propaganda.

Cathy Young

8 Sep 2024 · 9 min read

Painting depicting men in 18th-century dress in a grand hall, raising arms, gesticulating, storming a podium.

Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror

9 Thermidor was a victory over a bloodthirsty tyranny claiming to act in the name of progressive ideals.

Cathy Young

2 Aug 2024 · 22 min read

Children of the Counter-Revolution

Sexual liberty reconsidered.

Cathy Young

8 Jul 2022 · 16 min read

Ukraine and the Pro-Putin Right

Reactions to Russia’s war in Ukraine have become a perfect demonstration of the “horseshoe theory,” according to which the extremes of Left and Right must converge. Amid overwhelming international condemnation of Russia and sympathy for the Ukrainians’ courageous resistance, Putin-friendly voices blaming the West, NATO, and particularly the United

Cathy Young

12 Mar 2022 · 12 min read

'Allen v. Farrow': Intellectually Dishonest Propaganda Meets Emotional Blackmail

There is no doubt that part of the goal of Allen v. Farrow was to finish off both Allen’s career and his legacy by presenting a definitive guilty verdict in the court of public opinion.

Cathy Young

28 Mar 2021 · 26 min read

Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony

Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.

Cathy Young

16 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich

Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.

Cathy Young

7 Aug 2020 · 16 min read

PODCAST 92: Journalist Cathy Young on Her Investigation of Tara Reade

Writer and Journalist Cathy Young talks to Jonathan Kay about her investigations into Tara Reade’s evolving accusations against Joe Biden, and explains why the ranks of Reade’s supporters are shrinking.

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29 May 2020 · 1 min read

Tara Reade's Dubious Claims and Shifting Stories Show the Limits of #BelieveWomen

If Reade’s claims really do sink Biden in November, the Democrats will merely be reaping what their moral panic has sowed.

Cathy Young

14 May 2020 · 26 min read

Putin at the World Holocaust Forum

The indecency of this spectacle was compounded by the fact that Putin was allowed to posture as the savior of Kremlin hostage Naama Issachar, whom he pardoned after his trip.

Cathy Young

15 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult

Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.

Cathy Young

19 Jan 2020 · 16 min read

Blasting Enlightenment Values Into Martian Orbit

Build an education system that promotes both liberal arts and liberal values.

Cathy Young

27 Dec 2019 · 5 min read

The Rise of the Illiberal Right

Of course liberalism is not perfect, and it may well be in need of a course correction.

Cathy Young

11 Jun 2019 · 12 min read

How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull

Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.

Cathy Young

24 May 2019 · 11 min read

The Case for Nabokov

An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.

Cathy Young

6 May 2019 · 13 min read