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
Long Read
A collection of 240 posts
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 Large multinational publishing firms have hastily withdrawn controversial titles
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, Part Two: The Trial
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, Part One: The Camps
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
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
The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On
The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.
Tony Fels
· 27 min read
Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party
No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 20 min read