The Language of Sex
While we fuss over definitions and pontificate on freedoms, sex and lust and desire and passion and bodies coming together, remain largely undomesticated.
Marilyn Simon
· 11 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 837 posts
Twilight of the Satyrs
I. On April 18th of this year, Blake Bailey, 58, the author of Philip Roth: The Biography, was abruptly dropped by his literary agency, the Story Company. His book had been published on April 6th, and climbed to the top of the bestseller lists. But then allegations emerged that while
Charlotte Allen
· 28 min read
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole—A Review
In the 1980s, when political correctness was slowly brewing in parts of academia, Isaac Asimov claimed democracy was under attack.
Göran Adamson
· 7 min read
Watching America’s Crack-Up
America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.
Benjamin Kerstein
· 20 min read
Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind
The following is an excerpt from Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind, by Hrishikesh Joshi. Routledge, 196 pages. (March 2021) The division of cognitive labor Modern society is only possible because of the division of labor. Without division of labor, the most we could achieve is a very
Hrishikesh Joshi
· 23 min read
When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok
It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.
Lucy Kross Wallace
· 9 min read
A Treasure Trove of Priceless Pornography
One might be skeptical about Pornhub’s claim that their interactive guide is a way to raise museum attendance in the wake of the pandemic-induced hiatus.
Julia Friedman
· 11 min read
The Subversive Simone Weil—A Review
Chastising the followers of Marx for ignoring workers’ actual experiences, Weil was almost a nominalist, and she awaited insights, as opposed to going in search of them.
Seamus Flaherty
· 8 min read
Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review
Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.
Razib Khan
· 12 min read
Listening to Literature—What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks
The whole was something closer to verbal jazz.
Art Edwards
· 20 min read
Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series
Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently
Allan Stratton
· 17 min read
The Faith of Systemic Racism
The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.
Peter Savodnik
· 7 min read
Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s
Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.
Robin Ashenden
· 13 min read
The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought
As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.
Wilfred Reilly
· 7 min read
A Toast to Randolph Bourne
There is much we can learn from Bourne, not only from his joie-de-vivre, his ideas about cultural diversity and disability, but perhaps most of all, from his toughness, his willingness to criticize associates.
Russell Jacoby
· 7 min read