The Lab-Leak Illusion The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it. Jamie Palmer 19 Aug 2023 · 53 min read
Does Christine Brown Deserve to Burn in Hell? In the pitiless moral universe of writer-director Sam Raimi’s 2009 horror film ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ guilt isn’t easily absolved and debts must always be paid in the end. Jamie Palmer 31 Oct 2021 · 12 min read
Romance and Retribution As institutions grow and evolve, they inevitably require reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart. Jamie Palmer 31 Mar 2020 · 34 min read
Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II) The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce. Jamie Palmer 1 Nov 2019 · 35 min read
Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I) And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide. Jamie Palmer 1 Nov 2019 · 33 min read
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism Given what we know about the world, what would we expect to find in the wake of the assassination had Oswald acted alone? Jamie Palmer 22 Nov 2018 · 28 min read
Fundamentalists vs The New York Times Over at the Outline, meanwhile, former Gawker features editor Leah Finnegan offered her take on what she called “The Bari Weiss Problem.” Jamie Palmer 17 Feb 2018 · 14 min read
Nobody's Victim: An Interview with Samantha Geimer The exchange below had already been completed when Hadley Freeman’s essay about the Polanski rape case appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday morning. Jamie Palmer 31 Jan 2018 · 19 min read
Liberalism in Peril One of the more perplexing idiosyncrasies of American political discussion is the tendency to conflate liberal and radical leftists. Jamie Palmer 9 Aug 2017 · 11 min read
Paranoid Paleoconservatives Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right. Jamie Palmer 1 Jun 2017 · 23 min read
Islam's Liberal Counter-Insurgency In her new book ‘The Battle for British Islam,’ campaigner Sara Khan offers a work of admirable frankness, determination, and moral clarity. Jamie Palmer 18 Dec 2016 · 7 min read
Stand Up For Heresy Identity politics, she argued, was imprisoning artists within silos of their own immediate experience and impoverishing the creative imagination. Jamie Palmer 16 Oct 2016 · 13 min read
Flag-Shaming in Response to Terrorism Reflexive expressions of solidarity signify an internalized Western understanding that life is precious and not cheap. Jamie Palmer 16 Jul 2016 · 4 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam The removal of Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship, he argued, would be a deliverance, and the nobility of the project to help build a democracy in its place ought to be self-evident. Jamie Palmer 29 Mar 2016 · 13 min read
Traitors to the Human Mind As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane. Jamie Palmer 3 Feb 2016 · 10 min read
