Behind the Mask: Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 720 posts
A Different Kind of Privilege
The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life.
Hunter Baker
· 5 min read
Why Sam Harris—Not Ezra Klein—Is the One Making Space for People of Colour
Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate
Jamil Jivani
· 13 min read
The Munk Debate and the Perils of Tribalism
Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group
Uri Harris
· 6 min read
In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW
John Nerst suggests that what is actually at issue is whether the discussion of the racial IQ gap is a matter of science or of politics.
Jacob Falkovich
· 13 min read
Jordan Peterson and the Failure of the Left
The hyperbolic uniformity of the leftist attack on Peterson is emblematic of the growing tendency to reduce left-of-center thought to the status of a rigidly simplistic ideology.
Carol Horton
· 10 min read
‘Indigenous Ways of Knowing’: Magical Thinking and Spirituality by Any One Name
The idea of bringing traditional ways of knowing together with empirical data and science is important.
Josh Dehaas
· 7 min read
Understanding Victimhood Culture: An Interview with Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning
Conservatives and others who find themselves opposed to campus activists might uphold the values of the dignity culture the activists reject
Claire Lehmann
· 25 min read
The Racism Treadmill
If racism still looms large in our social and political lives, then, as one left-wing commentator put it, “progress is debatable.”
Coleman Hughes
· 15 min read
Glamourising the 'Childfree Life' Ignores Reality for Most Childless Women
But the truth is, these women are not 'free' of the children they yearn for. Motherhood is a burden that we would give anything to bear.
Melanie Notkin
· 6 min read
A History of the Struggle for Gay Equality: Civil Rights or Counterculture Movement?
While the achievements of the gay rights movement are commendable, we should be wary of queer separatist activism.
Geoffrey Wale
· 11 min read
Elham Manea: From Fundamentalism to Reform
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
Andy Ngo
· 11 min read
Life as a Kuffar: My Seven Lost Years in Kuwait
Every industry in Kuwait is bloated with salaried, citizen employees who pick and choose their working schedules.
Carla Wilson
· 13 min read
Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool
Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.
Sebastian Cesario
· 4 min read
Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism
When black people are asked what they think about myriad race-related issues, their answers often deviate from liberal orthodoxy.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read