The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 726 posts
Believe (Some) Women
#MeToo demands that all women must be believed — except where their stories upset the prevailing narrative.
Karen Yossman
· 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
· 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
· 5 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 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
· 7 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 10 min read
Why It's Not OK to Hate Men
Is it okay to hate men, then? Again, obviously not, for the same reasons. Except – it’s not so obvious. Because such sentiments are again entering the mainstream.
Tim Lott
· 10 min read
The Problem with 'Facts Not Feelings'
The narrow emphasis on ‘facts not feelings’ reflects a widespread misunderstanding of the role evidence plays in the apprehension of truth.
John R. Wood, Jr.
· 8 min read
Britain's Populist Revolt
Britain has produced a Brexit debate that is utterly dry, sterile, and completely lacking in imagination.
Matthew Goodwin
· 22 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read