Adventures in Adjunctopia
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
History
A collection of 355 posts
Glenn Greenwald's Bad History
Had Henry A. Wallace become President of the United States, it would have been the equivalent of Stalin directly taking over the highest levels of the American government.
Ronald Radosh
· 9 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Steven Pinker
· 52 min read
60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba
It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start.
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 6 min read
"Heroic Guerrilla"—From Revolutionary Militant to Saint
Before his corpse was cold, the Che cult had a ready-made logo; a brand. But what exactly does it signify?
George Schifini
· 13 min read
Solzhenitsyn: The Fall of a Prophet
In exile, Solzhenitsyn turned to harsh criticism of the West, not just for failing to stand up to the Soviet regime and fully confront its malevolence.
Cathy Young
· 14 min read
The Children of the Revolution
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
James David Banker
· 9 min read
What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature?
Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only
Daniel Kalder
· 10 min read
What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today?
The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences.
Alexandra Hudson
· 15 min read
Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump
No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago.
Matt Johnson
· 16 min read
Understanding the Miracle of Hanukkah Through the Ancient World's Prism of Horrors
Judah’s men were not gentle souls.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools
Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools.
Robert MacBain
· 14 min read
Jews Revolutionized the Universities. Will Asians Do the Same?
The historical parallel between Jews and Asians is striking for a number of reasons—including the fact that both cases involve an explicit rejection of the idea that academic merit alone could be a tenable basis for admission.
Barbara Kay
· 16 min read
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Jamie Palmer
· 28 min read
Nazis: A Modern Field Guide
In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read