Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation
The New Yorker story remains an albatross around my neck.
Peter Cohen
· 27 min read
Long Read
A collection of 197 posts
The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution
The past is raked over for imperfections as left-modernist ideologues render the most grievance-based interpretation of history imaginable.
Eric Kaufmann
· 22 min read
When I Was in Love with a Comparative Literature Student
The first time we hung out, we read together in an empty classroom.
Max Diamond
· 25 min read
Captain Cook and the Colonial Paradox
Cook is best understood as a quintessential figure of the European Enlightenment, with all the consequences flowing from that, positive and negative.
Adam Wakeling
· 22 min read
Barney Rosset and the Unending Struggle to Read Freely
It is by now a familiar truism that the Internet—and social media, in particular—has awarded the intolerant, the narrow-minded, and the censorious unprecedented power. To this challenge from below, publishers have, by and large, responded with dismaying timidity. Large multinational publishing firms have hastily withdrawn controversial titles and
Kevin Mims
· 22 min read
Romance and Retribution
As an institution grows and evolves, it inevitably requires reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart.
Jamie Palmer
· 34 min read
Fabricated Innocence
The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.
Andrew Hammel
· 42 min read
Holbrooke and the 68ers
Our Man tells a tidier story than The Unwinding because it focusses on one man, and the analogy between Holbrooke and the country he served holds up remarkably well throughout the book.
Matt Johnson
· 28 min read
The Libertarian Case for Rejecting Meat Consumption
The argument that avoiding meat would deny animals lives worth living faces further problems.
Andy Lamey
· 20 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
· 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
· 33 min read
Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
Pascal Bruckner
· 25 min read
The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice
Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.
Nigel Biggar
· 19 min read
Canada's Treatment of Indigenous Peoples Was Cruel. But Calling It an Ongoing 'Genocide' Is Wrong
The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes.
David Mount
· 19 min read
A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived
Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.
Joseph Massey
· 19 min read