How French Intellectuals Lost Their Faith
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Art & Culture
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Political Animals — The Limits of Labels and Why We Must Overcome Them
It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it.
Theo Zenou
· 9 min read
Review: The New Philistines
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
Matthew Stewart
· 6 min read
Our Age of Empathy
The feeling of helplessness that arises from passively consuming distant events is now central to the relationship of the individual to the world.
Wessie du Toit
· 6 min read
On Meaning, Identity Politics and Bias in the Academy — An Interview with Clay Routledge
Claire Lehmann
· 13 min read
Yassmin Abdel-Magied — The Woman on Whom Everything Is Lost
The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left
Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
Why Growth Most Often Occurs When We Fall Apart
I find this theory to be a very elegant explanation of human potential and the process of growth and change.
Michael Aaron
· 6 min read
The Truth About Propaganda
The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read
The Rise of the Right and the Triumph of Rhetoric
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Free Speech and the Regressive Left — The Road Back to Reason
A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 11 min read
On Moral Outrage and Humility
Much like I try to match my scholarly beliefs with intellectual humility, I rather hope to match my moral outrage with moral humility.
Patrick Chambers
· 5 min read
Feminism Needs to Talk About Responsibility, Not Just Rights
If we ask these accusers to explain themselves, are we blaming the victims? Possibly.
Irene Ogrizek
· 7 min read