Review: The Future of Liberalism — Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats.
Oliver Traldi
· 15 min read
Books
A collection of 274 posts
Review: Raqqa Diaries — Escape from Islamic State
Samer’s book is a story of ordinary life interrupted, and of bravery and endurance in the face of abject terror.
James Snell
· 7 min read
Kill All Normies — Online Culture Wars and the Rise of the Alt-Right: Review
Kill All Normies is merely a good start in need of deeper research, broader connections, clearer argumentation, and a great deal of editing.
Oliver Traldi
· 17 min read
Born 100 Years Ago, Anthony Burgess Was a Genius Who Fought for Free Speech
Despite his worldwide reputation as the creator of nightmare futures, many people are unaware of Burgess’s credentials as an outspoken opponent of literary censorship.
Andrew Biswell
· 5 min read
Browsing the Tate Bookshop
The Tate Britain shop is large and there are multiple, unimpeachable shelves of books grouped into themes such as technique, art history.
Michael Clegg
· 7 min read
I've Found a Place That Makes Me Want to Swallow Its Rhetoric Whole
Sadie insisted, apropos of nothing, that she was “really a radical feminist.”
Michael Rectenwald
· 17 min read
Review: Inglorious Empire — British India by Shashi Tharoor
All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories.
Sumantra Maitra
· 11 min read
The Ideological Straitjacket on Campus — An English Instructor's Story
“Let’s not have any political correctness here. If characters can’t think and talk like people—if writers can’t—then what’s the point of literature?”
Ryan Blacketter
· 11 min read
The Changeling — A Review of In Full Colour by Rachel Dolezal
What it does do – and why it deserves to be widely read – is raise a mass of awkward questions about religion, race, sex, and identity.
Helen Dale
· 16 min read
Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex — A Review
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
Stuart Ritchie
· 6 min read
Money Laundering for the Soul — The Unbearable Ease of Moral Self-Exoneration
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Noam Shpancer
· 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
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Review: Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance
Through it he tells the story of hillbillies, impoverished immigrants who came from Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century to settle in the American south.
Irene Ogrizek
· 4 min read
Doing Good Better — William MacAskill
MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important.
Keiran Harris
· 6 min read