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 hadnât already said last January when I testified before Congress about climate change and energy. Michael Shellenberger 29 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses Much of todayâs madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nationâs institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit. David A. Eisenberg 24 Jul 2020 · 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 20 Jul 2020 · 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 16 Jul 2020 · 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 8 Jul 2020 · 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 30 Jun 2020 · 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 26 Jun 2020 · 5 min read
She Who Must Not Be Named Using âfemaleâ instead of âwomanâ is clearly an attempt to avoid circularity. The problem is that âfemaleâ is not something you can identify as. Helen Joyce 20 Jun 2020 · 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 enoughâif we pass one test of tolerance, we are sure to fail the next. Peter Hughes 19 Jun 2020 · 7 min read
How Britainâs 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 18 Jun 2020 · 7 min read
White Saviors Need to Leave the Room We need to have a discussion about racismâincluding a discussion about what that word means. Rukhsana Sukhan 17 Jun 2020 · 6 min read
Seattleâs Summer of Love Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionaryâthey 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 16 Jun 2020 · 8 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it. Kathleen Lowrey 12 Jun 2020 · 13 min read
Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists WĂŠver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies. Kathrine Jebsen Moore 5 Jun 2020 · 10 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