George Makari's ‘Of Fear and Strangers’—A Review French conservative radio host Éric Zemmour is mounting a presidential run, seeking to steal the mantle of right-wing populism from Marine Le Pen. Not only does the 63-year-old firebrand want to limit the number of immigrants who can come to France—a standard campaign promise for politicians of this type— Zaid Jilani 8 Dec 2021 · 6 min read
Stop Sensationalizing the Threat of Right-Wing Political Violence Terrorism is ultimately a weapon of the weak. By engaging in threat inflation, we expand the power and prestige of terrorists by allowing them to be more influential than they otherwise might be. Zaid Jilani 28 Jan 2021 · 7 min read
How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question. Zaid Jilani 30 Oct 2020 · 9 min read
The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes. Zaid Jilani 3 Aug 2020 · 5 min read
America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse. Zaid Jilani 12 Jun 2020 · 9 min read
America's Black Communities Are Suffering. Violent Protests Will Make the Suffering Worse All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes. Zaid Jilani 30 May 2020 · 9 min read
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: COVID-19 Shows We Can’t Have It All Which brings us back to COVID-19. By one estimate, 80,000 Americans died from flu-related illnesses during the 2017 — 2018 flu season. Zaid Jilani 11 Apr 2020 · 7 min read
Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is. Zaid Jilani 15 Oct 2019 · 8 min read
Why I Don’t Live in Fear of White Supremacists If we start to restrict civil liberties, spread panic and exaggerate the amount of hate and violence in our societies, we will give terrorists what they want: greater control over our political narratives and personal psychology. Zaid Jilani 30 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
Don't Blame Police Racism for America's Violence Epidemic Given the horrifying history of racism in the United States, this was never a far-fetched thesis. Zaid Jilani 27 Jul 2019 · 11 min read
What Does Teaching ‘White Privilege’ Actually Accomplish? Not What You Might Think (Or Hope) But there is a danger that, by talking about this inequality as an all-consuming phenomenon, we will end up creating a flattened and unfair image that portrays all whites in all situations and all contexts as benefiting from unearned advantages. Zaid Jilani 23 May 2019 · 8 min read
Why Does Ralph Northam Deserve No Mercy? Elite liberalism is embracing modes of thought that I once associated with the political Right: joy in punishment and us-versus-them thinking. Zaid Jilani 2 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers In my experience, social-media-driven activists have been driven more to hate villains than to love and honor their victims. And the most hated villain is white supremacy. Zaid Jilani 14 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
