‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards
There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story.
Stephen Elliott
· 20 min read
Culture Wars
A collection of 170 posts
Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’
A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.
How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist
In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read
From “Who Gets What?” to “Who Are We?”
The culture wars revolve around highly charged, deeply personal issues that are exceedingly difficult to compromise upon.
Jonathon P. Sine
· 15 min read
How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
Vincent Harinam and David Kopel
· 11 min read
Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address
This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 12 min read
Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency
Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.
Quillette
· 10 min read
Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like
Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.
Scott Newgent
· 8 min read
A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity
I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.
Austin Schue
· 13 min read
Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression
Language does not form our view of the world and its inhabitants in any meaningful sense.
Robert D. King
· 10 min read
The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity
Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?
Lorraine Clark
· 7 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
Then They Came for Beethoven
Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive.
Daniel Lelchuk
· 7 min read
International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science
We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.
Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
· 8 min read