The Problem with Poland's New Holocaust Law
This process of historical compression informs much of the debate about Poland’s new law.
John A. Litwinski
· 5 min read
History
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Free Speech Matters
What’s at stake if both the legal protection and cultural environment sustaining free speech continues to deteriorate?
Jacob Mchangama
· 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
· 6 min read
Hate Speech Does Not Induce 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
· 6 min read
Defending the Humanities 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
· 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
· 6 min read
Memory and the Spanish Flu
The origins of the virus are disputed. Researchers have pointed to China, Austria and France.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Get 'Em While They're Young
Political and ideological indoctrination of children is most effective when it begins early.
Oliver Waters
· 13 min read
Romanticising 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
· 14 min read
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Grief, Mourning, and the Continuity of Life
The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler
· 5 min read
The Pre-Modernism of the Future
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
Why Didn't the Industrial Revolution Happen in Rome?
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
Helen Dale
· 8 min read
JFK Conspiracies Are Slowly Dying
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
Craig Colgan
· 12 min read
Ratko Mladić's Conviction — Evidence and Mass Graves Still Matter
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
· 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
· 12 min read