How D.B. Cooper and the Golden Age of Air Piracy Changed Aviation Fiction Kevin Mims 24 Nov 2021 · 32 min read
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism—A Review Kevin Mims 11 Nov 2021 · 24 min read
‘It works! It works! It works!’: Jonas Salk and the Vaccine that Conquered Polio Americans turned on their radios, department stores set up loudspeakers, and judges suspended trials so that everyone in the courtroom could hear what Francis was about to say. Paul A. Offit 29 Oct 2021 · 8 min read
Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It? In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by European empires, the Western world awoke to the horrors that humans are capable of committing against those they perceived to be inferior. Jerry Barnett 3 Oct 2021 · 14 min read
"These Are Very Bad Dudes" — David Buss on Sexual Conflict and the Dark Triad So sexual conflict is pervasive, and the evolutionary perspective adds a lot of clarity to where and why men and women get into conflict and the particular manifestations it takes in the human case. Claire Lehmann 23 Sep 2021 · 22 min read
Jessie Tu and the Fashionably Regressive Approach to Reading The world of literature has expanded its horizons in recent decades, and the quality of writing from voices that may not have been published in decades past is something for which we should be grateful. Neil Tully 8 Sep 2021 · 5 min read
Mrs. Dalloway: Secularism and Its Enchantments Woolf’s depiction of these inner rhythms would be refined in the novels that followed—To the Lighthouse and The Waves—but Dalloway was the true birth of this form. Jared Marcel Pollen 2 Sep 2021 · 12 min read
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole—A Review In the 1980s, when political correctness was slowly brewing in parts of academia, Isaac Asimov claimed democracy was under attack. Göran Adamson 11 Aug 2021 · 6 min read
The Subversive Simone Weil—A Review Chastising the followers of Marx for ignoring workers’ actual experiences, Weil was almost a nominalist, and she awaited insights, as opposed to going in search of them. Seamus Flaherty 30 Jul 2021 · 7 min read
Listening to Literature—What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks The whole was something closer to verbal jazz. Art Edwards 28 Jul 2021 · 20 min read
Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views. Robin Ashenden 20 Jul 2021 · 12 min read
The Prophet of Dystopia at Rest: Margaret Atwood in Cuba Canada has never supported the US embargo, and the countries’ good relations are for many Canadians a symbol of our independence. Yvon Grenier 2 Jul 2021 · 13 min read
In Praise of the Novelization—Pop Fiction's Least Reputable Genre Kevin Mims 28 Jun 2021 · 19 min read
Modern Europe and the Enlightenment—A Review Modern Europe and the Enlightenment opens by presenting a balanced examination and robust summary of Enlightenment values. T.M. Murray 30 May 2021 · 7 min read