From the Editor
Social media has sped time up. In the world of Twitter, outrage is instantaneous, and deliberation impossible.
Claire Lehmann
· 3 min read
Cancel Culture
A collection of 84 posts
The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Robert Cherry
· 11 min read
Reflections on the Revolution at Yale
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Jamie Kirchick
· 7 min read
Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Matthew Lesh
· 10 min read
Real Art Is Bound to Cause Offence
Artists should be nervous when advocacy groups gain influence over the creative process: Their focus is never art. It’s always their own narrow agenda.
Gabriel Scorgie
· 10 min read
Banning Bitcoin to Complete Big Tech Censorship
Bitcoin’s decentralized network means that regardless of how much corporate America hates some commentator, it can’t stop you from sending her cryptocurrency.
James D. Miller
· 5 min read
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
Katy Barnett
· 18 min read
The Public Humiliation Diet
In today’s topsy-turvy world, virtue signaling trumps being virtuous.
Toby Young
· 23 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read