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A collection of 92 posts

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women

Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women

Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.

Kathleen Stock

18 May 2021 · 12 min read

Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933

Book Burning at Midnight, May 10th, 1933

Following the Nazis’ defeat by the Allies, the imagery lived on. In succeeding decades, projections of the book burning were never long out of sight or reference.

Thomas Doherty

10 May 2021 · 7 min read

James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature

James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature

Samuel Kronen

2 May 2021 · 24 min read

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot

Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot

The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.

Edie Wyatt

19 Apr 2021 · 7 min read

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review

Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter.

Jonathan Salem-Wiseman

18 Apr 2021 · 7 min read

Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values

Anti-Asian Discrimination Is Real and an Attack on American Values

The self-selection bias of immigrants does not dilute the story.

Manu Sarna

24 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia

Starvation and Ethnic Cleansing Stalk Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government has attempted to maintain total control of the narrative by locking down the region and imposing a communications blackout.

James Jeffrey

7 Mar 2021 · 8 min read

Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong

Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.

Peter Baehr

1 Feb 2021 · 15 min read

Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art

Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art

Jorge C. Carrasco

13 Dec 2020 · 4 min read

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Brian Stewart

4 Dec 2020 · 5 min read

Making the World Safe for Autocracy

Making the World Safe for Autocracy

Brian Stewart

20 Nov 2020 · 4 min read

China’s Stateless Nations

China’s Stateless Nations

Aaron Sarin

28 Oct 2020 · 11 min read

How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

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 Oct 2020 · 9 min read

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second

We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.

Jonathan Kay

4 Oct 2020 · 5 min read