Identity

Fables of the Deconstruction

Rejection may sting. But it’s not the same as being ripped off.

George Case

10 Jan 2023 · 7 min read

The Radicalization of the Film Canon

Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll is a sign of the times.

Adrian Nguyen

18 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Gay Not Queer

Gay identities are based on biological sex; gender identities erase biological sex and replace it with gender.

Peter Gajdics

25 Nov 2022 · 10 min read

The Limits of Radical Protest

Those fighting for social change today would do well to heed Bayard Rustin’s advice about how to build sustainable and effective political movements.

Matt Johnson

5 Aug 2022 · 12 min read

Against False Privilege

One of the biggest blunders of modern activism is the promotion of guilt and the demand for false privilege.

Niamh Jiménez

30 Jul 2022 · 8 min read

Voters and Quotas: Crunch Time for Chile’s Millennial Revolutionaries

The proposal for a radical identitarian constitution has set off a popular counterrevolution in the run-up to a fateful referendum on September 4th.

Rasmus Sonderriis

8 Jul 2022 · 17 min read

Progressivism, Sexuality, and Mental Illness

Is contemporary liberal-left culture producing greater mental distress?

Eric Kaufmann

14 Jun 2022 · 12 min read

Diversity and Its Discontents

The public conversation about demographic change is hypocritical and destructive.

Bo Winegard

3 Jun 2022 · 11 min read

Each year as America toggles from Black History Month to March Madness, I find myself thinking of the Nigerian student who walked into my college office some years ago at around this time. This brilliant young man and aspiring academic told me of his discomfort with Black History Month, and

Steve Salerno

28 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

AWOL Black Fathers

When my mother called me in from play one afternoon to meet the man seated in our living room, her introduction was redundant—I immediately knew who he was. And, right off, I did not like him. His absence had been a painful matter in my life. The house that

John Washington

21 Mar 2022 · 13 min read

How Social Justice Killed Anti-Racism

One of the early signs of trouble for the British anti-racism movement was a tweet sent by Lee Jasper in April 2013 [https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/07/lee-jasper-race-relations_n_3032829.html] , in which he declared that black people are incapable of being racist, and offered to publicly

Jerry Barnett

9 Feb 2022 · 11 min read

Identity Mania

A review of The Identity Myth [https://amzn.to/3skYmMJ] by David Swift. Constable, 320 pages (June 2022). In recent decades, anxieties afflicting Western democracies have arisen from new beliefs and conflicts about how citizens relate to each other—their relative status in society, notions of mutual respect, and the