Art and Culture
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A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
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Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Abuse — Words Aren't Violence
The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.
The Unsafe Feminist — Rebecca West and the Bitter Rapture of Truth
Infantilism goes along with illiberalism, because while a liberal society requires a baseline of human freedom and responsibility.
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Luciferina — An Interview with Amanda Knox
Knox found the fortitude to survive her crucible and the talent to start over. Hers is a voice I will definitely be waiting to hear more of.
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The Institutionalisation of Social Justice
Last year, Google engineer James Damore was fired after an internal memo he wrote was leaked to technology website Gizmodo, causing an uproar within the company.
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse Than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Camille Paglia — It's Time for a New Map of the Gender World
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
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Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.