A Misremembered Day of Infamy
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
History
A collection of 350 posts
An Optimistic Outlook on 2021
The events of 2020 have caused precisely these sorts of setbacks in global collective human progress.
Tony Morley
· 7 min read
A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy
In a dizzying volte-face, the world’s most murderously anti-natalist regime has become its most pleadingly pro-natalist.
Aaron Sarin
· 15 min read
On the Trail of Delusion—A Review
Reasonably minded readers who have followed the unraveling of Garrison’s assassination probe over the years will likely wonder how anyone ever believed him or allowed him to ruin the life of an entirely innocent man, New Orleans businessman and preservationist Clay Shaw.
Gerald Posner
· 11 min read
On Remembrance Day, Celebrating Two Canadian Prisoners Who Took Down an Entire Shipyard
The need for secrecy was therefore paramount. But as he began to plot his sabotage, Clark realized he’d need at least one trusted accomplice.
George MacDonell
· 10 min read
Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture
In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”
Noah Carl
· 9 min read
The Dead Are Rising—A Review
The Dead are Arising offers similarly interesting insights into Malcolm X’s adolescence and adult life.
Clayton Trutor
· 7 min read
How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.
John Young
· 9 min read
The Prescience of Shelby Steele
A great writer shows us how to think rather than telling us what to think.
Samuel Kronen
· 18 min read
Sex and the American Presidency
What does all this have to do with the sexual follies in the White House? Like the Bolshevik Revolution, sex is nothing if not leveling.
Seth Greenland
· 19 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
Benny Morris
· 20 min read
Time and Perceptions of Trustworthiness—the Row over a Novel Study
A society worth having rests on our willingness to co-operate, to be able to depend a little on the kindness and civility of strangers.
Rosalind Arden
· 9 min read
John Glubb and Avoiding the Fate of Empires
The first step is better wealth distribution. If we are all—as a nation—in it together, then we should all be sharing both the burdens and the benefits.
Leo Nicolletto
· 14 min read
Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today
One general conclusion from reading Leys is that although totalitarian movements are immensely dangerous, that doesn’t mean we should give the theories behind them much intellectual weight.
David Adler
· 15 min read
Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug
But the real scandal—not discussed much in the media—wasn’t Krug’s decade of duplicity.
Charlotte Allen
· 9 min read