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
· 13 min read
Arts and Culture
A collection of 85 posts
Headline Rhymes
Views on the news, delivered so smooth.
Graham Verdon
· 1 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 5 min read
Feminism's Dependency Trap
Unintended and painful irony of recent feminism’s preoccupation with overcoming male oppression has been to place men at the centre of female identity.
Marilyn Simon
· 8 min read
Stupid Is as Stupid Writes
Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.
Andrew Bade
· 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
· 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
· 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 min read
A Mania for All Seasons: The Continuing Importance of 'The Devils of Loudun'
Huxley’s dissection of a seventeenth century social pandemonium, whipped up in an era of shifting sexual mores, is a timeless indictment of the latent monstrousness within all human beings.
Samuel McGee-Hall
· 11 min read
Why It's Time to End Factory Farming
Think about the horses who were replaced by cars. Cars do the same thing horses do—they move people from one place to another—but without all the crap.
Jacy Reese
· 6 min read
An Academic Mobbing at McGill
In true mobbing fashion, the extreme and racist allegations that Ibrahim was a typical Arabic misogynist and sexual predator simply do not add up. In fact the opposite is true.
Barbara Kay
· 25 min read