How Prophetic Was Gattaca?
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
George Schifini
· 5 min read
Human Rights
A collection of 92 posts
Stonewall's LGBT Guidance is Limiting the Free Speech of Gender Critical Academics
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
Kathleen Stock
· 12 min read
'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
Jack B. Nimble
· 15 min read
It’s Time for Progressives to Protect Women Instead of Pronouns
Many liberals—including feminists and lesbians—have been cowardly in calling out this noxious phenomenon, for fear of being called transphobes.
Julie Bindel
· 6 min read
A Girl’s Place in the World
Men (and, less often, women as well) across societies all over the world have used violence in an attempt to control women’s reproductive outcomes and limit the choices available to them, and in many circumstances, men have benefited from doing so.
William Buckner
· 15 min read
How Intersectionalism Betrays the World’s Muslim Women
The progress of Muslim reformers, dissidents and apostates is hindered by leftists that use cultural relativism as a basis for their activism.
Omayma Mohamed
· 9 min read
How Social Justice Ideologues Hijacked a Legal Regulator
Speech is unconscionable regardless of the principles a person is made to parrot. Today, we are being told to promote “equality, diversity and inclusion.
Murray Klippenstein with Bruce Pardy
· 11 min read
The West's Betrayal of Iranian Dissidents
Iranians who yearn for democracy and an open, prosperous society at peace with the world are met with overwhelming indifference from the West’s media and political leaders.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 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
The Betrayal of Asia Bibi
Bibi’s human rights must surely come first and, as Chishti asserts, Britain has a moral responsibility stand up for “core values” of religious freedom and justice.
Hardeep Singh
· 8 min read
Upholding the Jihadist's Veto
The Court’s decision therefore constitutes a clear and present danger to the emerging consensus that blasphemy laws are incompatible with international human rights law.
Jacob Mchangama and Flemming Rose
· 7 min read
Asian-Americans' Unrequited Love of Harvard
Asian-Americans don’t necessarily think of themselves as “victims” of Harvard’s racist policies. They’re more concerned with the idea of merit—they want their admission to be judged on their resume of accomplishments, not their race.
Kenny Xu
· 13 min read
Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras
With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 6 min read
Purity or Universalism?
The main problem with the quest for purity is that it is fine in one’s own home or church but it becomes a problem in the public square, which—by virtue of being inherently diverse and competitive—is configured to resist the wish to be pure.
Sami J. Karam
· 10 min read