The Social Justice Left and the Alt-Right: Our Divided New World
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 830 posts
Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters"
And when policy is not up for debate and when conversation is taken off the table.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Are Internet Memes a New Form of Literature?
When historians study ancient societies they use pottery, cave art, paintings and engravings as their sources. Memes can play the same role as one of the sources of history.
Aneeq Ejaz
· 5 min read
Pronoun Wars: Gender Theorists go Head-to-Head with Jordan Peterson
Cossman consistently minimised the scope and power of C-16, using qualifying words and phrases like only, most extreme and high threshold.
Irene Ogrizek
· 5 min read
Why Colleges Should Stop Teaching “Toxic Masculinity”
For every article published highlighting a case of students being taught this ideology, there are dozens of other instances that aren’t covered by the news.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Cut Out The "Literally Hitler" Hysteria
Human societies, generally are conservative, and they prefer primarily two things, order and rule of law in society, and the perceived safety of one’s own tribe.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Restart of History and the Russia Question
There should be no misunderstanding that Russia is an adversarial great power.
Sumantra Maitra
· 10 min read
One Way Ayn Rand Aficionados Are Unrealistic
Just as it is unfair to compare idealised socialism to a realistic but flawed capitalism, so too is it unfair for Brook to compare his idealised capitalist vision to realistic socialism.
Michael Ezra
· 3 min read
Want to Take Back Control? Then Abolish the Rule of Lords
The British people voted to reject an institution that curtails the will of people, that serves crony business interests before democracy, and that promotes nepotism.
Charlie Peters
· 4 min read
When Accusations Abound Who Will Protect the Falsely Maligned?
Allowing one group to use freighted words like homophobe or racist or rapist to tarnish an individual’s reputation without proof violates a principle of fairness that some of us hold dear.
Irene Ogrizek
· 9 min read
Reappraising Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations'
The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West
With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself.
AR Devine
· 7 min read
Time to Draw the Line in the Sand on Trigger Warnings
The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims.
Mark Fabian
· 5 min read
Why Are Rates of Mental Illness Soaring Among Young Women?
The world is theirs for the taking — only a significant proportion are, it seems, too anxious, depressed and traumatised to take advantage.
Joanna Williams
· 5 min read
A Defence of Lionel Shriver: Identity Politicians Would Kill Literature if They Could
Shriver took aim at the devotees of identity politics, who occupy and conquer today’s university campuses.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read