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Beware Cultural Drift

Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.

Robin Hanson

11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

Slavery and Steam

The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.

David Foster

21 Jul 2022 · 7 min read

A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100

Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics

Jared Marcel Pollen

31 Jan 2022 · 13 min read

The Need for a Culture of Achievement

Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean.

Robert Tracinski

5 Jan 2022 · 12 min read

‘We Never Looked Back’

Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.

Ruth R. Wisse

27 Nov 2021 · 15 min read

The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most

Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.

Russell T. Warne

25 Nov 2021 · 13 min read

Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives

The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.

Sara Cederberg

25 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

Against Cultural Protectionism

We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.

Leo Nicolletto

9 Dec 2020 · 13 min read

What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture

Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.

Bradley Campbell

20 Jul 2020 · 9 min read

Protecting Our Cultural Commons from Opportunism

The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior.

David C. Rose

22 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

Immigration Is Changing America Less than You Think

The enormous level of immigration to the United States has actually done little to change the overall demographics of the country over the past 20 years.

John A. Litwinski

24 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One

Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.

Brittany Martinez

20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy

The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.

Galen Watts

17 Feb 2019 · 7 min read

What Happened to Gawker? An Interview with Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday’s book 'Conspiracy' tells the story of Peter Thiel’s decade-long campaign against Gawker Media.

Stephen Elliott

13 Dec 2018 · 16 min read

Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity?

Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world.

Ben Bassett

23 Aug 2018 · 9 min read