Why Free Speech Matters What’s at stake if both the legal protection and cultural environment sustaining free speech continues to deteriorate? Jacob Mchangama 25 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
Why Walls Work Walls are potent political issues today because citizens of afflicted nations are suffering real costs from illegal mass migration. George Gallatin 21 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
“Hate Speech” Does Not Incite Hatred The claim that “hate speech” causes hatred, and thereby causes violence, is superficially appealing, but the more one thinks about it, the less sense it makes. Gordon Danning 18 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
Defending Humanities Scholarship from its Defenders It is an answer looking for a question, the opposite of an open and free search for true knowledge about human beings in the world through time. Matthew Neufeld 10 Jan 2018 · 4 min read
Nikola Tesla: The Extraordinary Life of a Modern Prometheus The match for each, of course, is Tesla. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology. Richard Gunderman 7 Jan 2018 · 6 min read
In Memory of the Spanish Flu The origins of the virus are disputed. Researchers have pointed to China, Austria and France. Ben Sixsmith 6 Jan 2018 · 7 min read
Get ‘Em While They’re Young This negative definition is a handy one, as it doesn’t commit her to any specific doctrines that have actually been historically implemented and shown to have failed. Oliver Waters 17 Dec 2017 · 13 min read
Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers. William Buckner 16 Dec 2017 · 14 min read
Are the JFK Conspiracies Slowly Dying? Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found. Craig Colgan 25 Nov 2017 · 12 min read
Ratko Mladić's Conviction and why the Evidence of Mass Graves Still Matters Convicting Mladić, who stood accused for his involvement in implementing and orchestrating the forcible transfer and eventual elimination of the Bosnian Muslim population. Melanie Klinkner 23 Nov 2017 · 4 min read
Misunderstanding Capitalism This debate offered an opportunity to reflect on the respective merits of capitalism and socialism (the Jacobin representatives’ preferred alternative) and lessons from the past that might help us to build a better tomorrow. Christopher Reuenthal 22 Nov 2017 · 12 min read
The Poverty of Cosmopolitan Historicism Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity. Carl Ritter 17 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
Populism and Nostalgia's False Promise Fear of individual and cultural extinction is both a cause and a product of the nostalgia so widespread in both Europe and America today. Henry George 13 Nov 2017 · 10 min read
The Problems of “Privilege”: Lessons from the French Revolution It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history. Blake Smith 3 Nov 2017 · 9 min read
How the Politics of the Left Lost Its Way One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology. Geoffrey M Hodgson 2 Nov 2017 · 5 min read
