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Photo montage of Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering as young people.

Fabricated Innocence

The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.

Andrew Hammel

8 Mar 2020 · 42 min read

An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion

The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”

Silvia G. Poratelli

26 Feb 2020 · 12 min read

Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell

Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.

RJ Smith

10 Feb 2020 · 14 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (II)

The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 35 min read

Denial and Defamation: The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited (I)

And those who continue to protest the trial’s outcome invariably do so as part of an implicit—and frequently explicit—attempt to invalidate the reckoning with Living Marxism’s record of defamation and denial that the trial was intended to provide.

Jamie Palmer

1 Nov 2019 · 33 min read

I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular

The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.

Steve Jacobs

16 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?

It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.

April Halley

12 Oct 2019 · 15 min read

Jeffrey Epstein and All the Others: An Explainer

Epstein’s crimes present an opportunity to consider larger historical, anthropological, cultural lessons about the seemingly endless, whack-a-mole reappearance of men with his obsessions.

Kay Hymowitz

6 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

NARRATED: Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College by Daniel McGraw

Greg Ellis reads Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College, Daniel McGraw’s essay on the legal dispute between a bakery and the liberal arts college that ended with a $33 million payout to the small business. It was published in Quillette on June 20, 2019.

Quillette

1 Aug 2019 · 1 min read

A Canadian Human Rights Spectacle Exposes the Risks of Unfettered Gender Self-ID

The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim

Helen Joyce

25 Jul 2019 · 11 min read

The Many Lies of Carl Beech

Beech claimed he had been tied up and had his bones broken by Generals and Field Marshals

Matthew Scott

25 Jul 2019 · 16 min read

How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back

The Tarrant manifesto is banned in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, I think. How can you know a thing if you’re not allowed to name it?

Christie Blatchford

14 Jul 2019 · 15 min read

Human Dignity and Human Rights

But it does mean that arbitrary factors, such as whether one is born into a wealthy family or happens to be part of some historically elevated demographic, should not determine where people end up

Matt McManus

13 Jul 2019 · 8 min read

How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence

Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.

Robby Soave

3 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Ideology and Facts Collide at Oberlin College

The recently concluded libel trial involving Oberlin College offered a demonstration of this phenomenon on the part of both the defendants and much of the media covering the case.

Daniel McGraw

20 Jun 2019 · 15 min read