Amidst the YouTube Junkies of MythCon, I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement. Jonathan Kay 24 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’ Renee Gerlich 24 Sep 2018 · 8 min read
Anthony Bourdain vs. the Tyranny of Wellness The cult of wellness commands: Thou shalt not contaminate the sacred body. Jenai Engelhard 22 Sep 2018 · 5 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob. Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard 21 Sep 2018 · 13 min read
Believe (Some) Women #MeToo demands that all women must be believed — except where their stories upset the prevailing narrative. Karen Yossman 20 Sep 2018 · 6 min read
Breaking the Norm We now treat people who dissent from the progressive orthodoxy about certain offenses as being no different from the people who actually committed the offenses in the first place. Jamie Kilstein 16 Sep 2018 · 8 min read
Against Thank You Cards Grinding out note after note of identical, monotonous pro forma gratitude is not a pleasurable pastime, nor even a merely dull one; it is a good old-fashioned nuisance. Daniel Payne 16 Sep 2018 · 5 min read
Reflections on the Revolution at Yale Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists. Jamie Kirchick 9 Sep 2018 · 7 min read
Real Art Is Bound to Cause Offence Artists should be nervous when advocacy groups gain influence over the creative process: Their focus is never art. It’s always their own narrow agenda. Gabriel Scorgie 26 Aug 2018 · 10 min read
My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity. Helen Dale 21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
Kimmel and Conflict Theory: Sociology Turns Its Lens onto One of Its Own Recent case of Michael Kimmel can be understood as a real-life manifestation of the ham-handed, universal application of a conflict theory perspective. Ilana Redstone 19 Aug 2018 · 11 min read
A Closer Look at Anti-White Rhetoric While affirming the ubiquity of anti-white rhetoric in progressive communities, Salam suggested it’s driven by motives beyond the simple highlighting of power structures. Uri Harris 17 Aug 2018 · 10 min read
