The Futility of the Conservative War on Pornography
Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
Activism
A collection of 240 posts
The Piety of the Impious
The largely ineradicable character of the religious instinct means that it persists, even upon the apparently disenchanted landscapes of modern secular culture.
Scott Buchanan
· 9 min read
Our Oppressive Moment
The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.
John McWhorter
· 7 min read
I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn't Let Me Speak
What, exactly, had I said that was so dangerous as to lead Democrats to engage in character assassination and undermine liberal democratic norms? Nothing I hadn’t already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy.
Michael Shellenberger
· 6 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses
Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit.
David A. Eisenberg
· 8 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Nick Comilla
· 8 min read
As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes?
One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization.
Steven D. Hales
· 7 min read
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
The Congo has a way of putting first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse into perspective.
Michael Shellenberger
· 37 min read
Policing in the Anomie Era
Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.
Mike Wilson
· 10 min read
Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History
And this neo-totalitarianism has learned from the past: It has its inquisitions, its auto-da-fes, its purges and cultural revolutions, reeducation and self-criticism sessions, and above all the ostracization and ultimate erasure of dissidents.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 5 min read
She Who Must Not Be Named
Using “female” instead of “woman” is clearly an attempt to avoid circularity. The problem is that “female” is not something you can identify as.
Helen Joyce
· 6 min read
The Purity Paradox: How Tolerance and Intolerance Increase at the Same Time
By relentlessly expanding the concept of intolerance, prevalence-induced concept change ensures none of us can ever be good enough—if we pass one test of tolerance, we are sure to fail the next.
Peter Hughes
· 7 min read
How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists
The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance.
Erin Perse
· 7 min read
White Saviors Need to Leave the Room
We need to have a discussion about racism—including a discussion about what that word means.
Rukhsana Sukhan
· 6 min read
Seattle’s Summer of Love
Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read