Truth and Disfavored Identities Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences. Joshua Hunter 20 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
Why Quebec Isn't Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation The joke was on the PM, not on India, on Indians or or Indo-Canadians. Yet that was not how some Anglophones saw it. François Cardinal 17 Jan 2019 · 8 min read
What Is This Thing You Call 'Social Justice'? “Why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we’ve learned not to fear words,” Uhura says. Barrett Wilson 17 Jan 2019 · 10 min read
Gillette's Progressive Politics: 'Corinthian Leather' for the Progressive Soul n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints. Jonathan Kay 17 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat. Patrick Lee Miller 17 Jan 2019 · 13 min read
Correcting ‘Youth’s Eternal Temptation to Arrogance’—One Bedtime Story at a Time Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past. Meghan Cox Gurdon 13 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
In Praise of Boredom, Again Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.” Caroline ffiske 11 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
Is Religious Belief in Decline? “Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason. Matt Johnson 9 Jan 2019 · 10 min read
How the Self-Esteem Myth Has Damaged Society and Us—An Interview with Will Storr When we tell ourselves we can be anything we want to be, which is the myth that emerges from Human Potential and self-esteem ideas, we’re setting ourselves up for unhappiness, because it’s simply not true. Clay Routledge 5 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
The New War on Comedy Once you make it acceptable to tell the jester what is off limits in one context, you enable those who would seek to silence him elsewhere. Konstantin Kisin 3 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
Stupid Is as Stupid Writes Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words. Andrew Bade 14 Nov 2018 · 12 min read
The Novel Isn’t Dead—Please Stop Writing Eulogies I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations. Gabriel Scorgie 13 Nov 2018 · 9 min read
How to Stop the Corporate Virtue-Signaling Before It’s Too Late There is a way to keep corporations in check Josh Dehaas 13 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
Reasons to Be Fearful Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down. Russell Blackford 5 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
