Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine. Charlotte Allen 17 Aug 2020 · 13 min read
At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely. Julian Vigo 5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read
The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes. Zaid Jilani 3 Aug 2020 · 5 min read
Remembering Cancel Culture’s 40-Year-Old Stepfather "Cruising" faced protests and boycotts from gay activists and the LGBTQ+ community, but later became a cult hit. Adrian Nguyen 27 Jul 2020 · 7 min read
Of Heroic Deeds and Hysterical Masses Much of today’s madness results from the failure to impart that lesson, a failure in which those ostensible repositories of enlightenment (the nation’s institutions of higher learning), obstinately committed to inflaming self-pity and self-importance, are indisputably and indefensibly complicit. David A. Eisenberg 24 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help' The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article. Nick Comilla 20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes? One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization. Steven D. Hales 16 Jul 2020 · 7 min read
The Hagia Sophia Should Remain a Beacon to All The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history. Lars Brownworth 15 Jul 2020 · 9 min read
Arguing in America Lawyers like to joke that a ruling is probably correct if both sides are equally upset by it. Geoff Costeloe 6 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it. Kathleen Lowrey 12 Jun 2020 · 13 min read
America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse. Zaid Jilani 12 Jun 2020 · 9 min read
Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies. Kathrine Jebsen Moore 5 Jun 2020 · 10 min read
Immigration and Inequality For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet. Christopher Caldwell 6 Apr 2020 · 8 min read
Romance and Retribution As institutions grow and evolve, they inevitably require reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart. Jamie Palmer 31 Mar 2020 · 34 min read
Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic. Matthew Small 7 Nov 2019 · 5 min read