Is There Such a Thing as a Good Academic-Activist? The problem isn’t that some academics are activists. It’s that some academics do activism badly. Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Mar 2023 · 9 min read
A Conspiracy Theory of Connotations The obsessive policing of language in the name of progress relies on magical thinking. Oliver Traldi 24 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
The Approaching Disintegration of Academia Universities cannot withstand the assault on objective truth. Mark Goldblatt 7 Feb 2023 · 7 min read
Child Welfare and the Cash Panacea Poverty is not the cause of abuse and neglect. Naomi Schaefer Riley 24 Jan 2023 · 6 min read
Scenes from a Marriage In 2020, a British High Court judge ruled that actor Johnny Depp was probably a “wife beater.” Earlier this year, an American jury disagreed. Who got it right? Charlotte Allen 18 Jan 2023 · 70 min read
It’s Time the Green Movement Stopped Demonizing Nuclear The pro-nuclear movement is gaining traction despite vocal opposition Zion Lights 10 Dec 2022 · 13 min read
Moral Toddlers Making a Mess Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it. Robert Tracinski 30 Oct 2022 · 5 min read
Reckon with This We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses. George Case 8 Oct 2022 · 8 min read
Child Welfare Is Becoming a Joke The field is mired in risible theory and impenetrable jargon, and increasingly divorced from concern with the welfare of children. Naomi Schaefer Riley 16 Sep 2022 · 5 min read
The Limits of Radical Protest Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements. Matt Johnson 5 Aug 2022 · 12 min read
Against False Privilege One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege. Niamh Jiménez 30 Jul 2022 · 8 min read
The Wobblies’ Return A lovingly restored 1979 film excavates the lost history of American radicalism. Thomas Doherty 1 Jun 2022 · 9 min read
Confession and Conspiracism in the Church of Social Justice “Indigenous peoples have been stewards of this planet since time immemorial,” tweeted [https://twitter.com/s_guilbeault/status/1459258437179789312?s=20] Canadian Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault from the Glasgow Climate Change Conference earlier this month. “The fight against climate change is not possible without their knowledge and leadership.” It was Jonathan Kay 22 Nov 2021 · 15 min read
The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide Christopher Dummitt 10 Aug 2021 · 9 min read