The Good Death—Cancel Culture and the Logic of Torture It is unsettling to consider how similar today’s public cancellations are to those public executions. Christophe Van Eecke 9 Sep 2021 · 19 min read
Luxury Belief Systems and Economic Stagnation: The Recipe for Our Discontent The result of these two trendlines—the dominance of luxury-belief-driven status competition in a period of extended economic stagnation—was a brew of identity politics, political tribalism, and cultural warfare that would have been bad enough on its own. Andrew Potter 19 Aug 2021 · 8 min read
Watching America’s Crack-Up America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead. Benjamin Kerstein 9 Aug 2021 · 20 min read
The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism The January 6th riot does make for a visually dramatic backdrop to an exploration of the fascistic strain in modern populist politics. Matthew Porter 5 Aug 2021 · 8 min read
Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge. Razib Khan 29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read
Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen. Christopher J. Snowdon 28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read
The Faith of Systemic Racism The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham. Peter Savodnik 21 Jul 2021 · 6 min read
Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on. Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo 20 Jul 2021 · 24 min read
The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist. Wilfred Reilly 19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read
Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures The increasing power of college diversity bureaucrats over academic affairs since the 1990s has been stunning. Heather Mac Donald 12 Jul 2021 · 9 min read
On Victimhood and Culture—A Reply to Aaron Hanna The idea that whites were in the house while blacks were sweating in the fields despising them is comfortable to us today as we look upon the context as a whole and justly revile it. John McWhorter 30 Jun 2021 · 5 min read
The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented? Glenn C. Loury 27 Jun 2021 · 26 min read
Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about. Quillette 24 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
The Limitations of Black Conservative Thought Perhaps if black conservatives offered a more nuanced “vision” of the respective roles of individuals and governments in addressing racial inequality, the black community would be less receptive to the anti-racist narrative that conservatives so vehemently denounce. Aaron Hanna 24 Jun 2021 · 34 min read