Michel Houellebecq: Prophet or Troll?
Houellebecq depicts a Europe where French culture is a bad joke.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 14 min read
Art & Culture
A collection of 850 posts
Conservatives Need to Start Taking Art Seriously
Because many conservative journals have given up on the subject of art entirely, one is tempted to ask what conservatives are seeking to actually conserve.
Michael J. Pearce
· 7 min read
How The Campaign Against Cultural Appropriation Came Back to Haunt Canada’s Indigenous Peoples
The idea of segregating musical styles by race sits in opposition to what we know about the way music is made—which is often through cultural cross-pollination.
Neil Gray
· 7 min read
Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane
The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.
Lona Manning
· 26 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
Addressing Brazil’s legacy of racism is surely one of my country’s most urgent moral priorities.
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
· 7 min read
Old Masters Remix: A review of 'Life Death Rebirth', the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
Jacob Willer
· 12 min read
Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It
In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.
Irshad Manji
· 5 min read
The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
Alexandra Hudson
· 8 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Lessons From a Recovering Identity Warrior
I left identity politics activism — and learned hard lessons about groupthink, moral certainty, and what happens when ideology becomes your whole identity.
Maziar Ghaderi
· 7 min read
ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is
The two processes may begin similarly, but in grooming gangs emotional manipulation very quickly progresses to rape, torture, and threats of murder.
Louise Perry
· 8 min read
The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters
People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers.
Nancy Rommelmann
· 10 min read
The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative
In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values.
Brad Polumbo
· 6 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read