The Autistic BuddhaâAn Interview The fundamental Buddhist dictum is that âlife is sufferingâ and that the only way of transcending this suffering is to face up to it squarely. Claire Lehmann 22 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
Racism, Anti-Racism, and Orientalism at LitHub Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy. Jonathan Kay 17 Jan 2018 · 10 min read
The Failed Heroâs Journey A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force. Alexander Blum 14 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
Nikola Tesla: The Extraordinary Life of a Modern Prometheus The match for each, of course, is Tesla. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology. Richard Gunderman 7 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
Why No One Cares About Feminist Theory At this point, we must really pause to ask ourselves how feminist theory is leaking into popular culture, and the reason is that itâs activism-driven scholarship. James Lindsay 2 Jan 2018 · 10 min read
Collision with Reality: What Depth Psychology Can Tell us About Victimhood Culture Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves. Lisa Marchiano 27 Dec 2017 · 11 min read
Direct Democracy and Its Discontents What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace. Oliver Conolly 27 Dec 2017 · 12 min read
Rethinking Romance with Stendhal's 'On Love' The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) âcrystallizationâ Matthew Stahlman 23 Dec 2017 · 16 min read
Welcome to the West, But Please Donât Integrate⊠The Westâs own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world. Nushin Arbabzadah 20 Dec 2017 · 7 min read
Worry About Piety Contests, Not 'Virtue Signaling' The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong. Cameron Harwick 12 Dec 2017 · 7 min read
What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome? What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution? Helen Dale 30 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
The Postmodern Misuse of Tolerance The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones. Alexis Carre 30 Nov 2017 · 12 min read
The Case For Moral Doubt When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted. Scotty Jenkins 27 Nov 2017 · 6 min read
Campus Counsellors and the Politicization of Sexual Assault What I mean by that is the narrative extolled by university trained feminists that implies assault victims are victims for life and have been irreparably damaged. Irene Ogrizek 26 Nov 2017 · 9 min read
Are the JFK Conspiracies Slowly Dying? Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found. Craig Colgan 25 Nov 2017 · 12 min read
