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Culture Wars

A collection of 158 posts

Civil Rights and Wrongs

Civil Rights and Wrongs

Hanania’s new book is a welcome entry to the conversation about wokeness, but his power-based perspective is incomplete.

Oliver Traldi

23 Sep 2023 · 15 min read

Saving Liberalism from ‘The Identity Trap’: An Interview with Yascha Mounk

Saving Liberalism from ‘The Identity Trap’: An Interview with Yascha Mounk

In an acclaimed new book, the German-American political scientist traces the rise of illiberal intellectual movements among modern progressives.

Jonathan Kay

19 Sep 2023 · 13 min read

My Journey Out of Extremism

My Journey Out of Extremism

And how I became a small-l liberal.

Richard Hanania

7 Aug 2023 · 10 min read

Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win

Civility Isn’t Weakness—It’s How We Win

A commitment to civility is first and foremost about not becoming what we oppose.

Julian Adorney / Angel Eduardo

14 Jul 2023 · 3 min read

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

The American Physical Society views the existence of White Privilege in physics as being both scientific and not scientific.

Lawrence M. Krauss

5 May 2023 · 5 min read

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling Continue

Dissecting a lengthy YouTube attack on gender-critical feminists

Holly Lawford-Smith

26 Apr 2023 · 14 min read

The Fall of ‘Nature’

The Fall of ‘Nature’

A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology.

Bo Winegard

28 Aug 2022 · 11 min read

Woke Capitalism’s Tragedy of the Commons

Woke Capitalism’s Tragedy of the Commons

Woke capitalism is rational, but it is also unsustainable.

Ilya Levine

24 May 2022 · 6 min read

The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things

The Hard Left and Populist Right Agree on All the Wrong Things

The ideas that unite the hard Left and the populist Right against the West itself are the same ones that make them both so excited about the culture wars.

Stephan Jensen

13 May 2022 · 8 min read

The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes

The Culture War is Coming for Your Genes

Damien Morris

30 Sep 2021 · 11 min read

The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture

The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture

Christophe Van Eecke

9 Sep 2021 · 19 min read

Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent

Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent

Andrew Potter

19 Aug 2021 · 8 min read

Watching America’s Crack-Up

Watching America’s Crack-Up

Benjamin Kerstein

9 Aug 2021 · 19 min read

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

Matthew Porter

5 Aug 2021 · 8 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 11 min read