A collection of 243 posts
The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine.
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.
America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.
Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists.
A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.
Should Jewish students accept the mantle of a marginalised group or reject DEI ideology altogether?
It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.
The new attention economy will always privilege the lowest common denominator in performance art, as it does in everything else.
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.