Lessons in Forgiveness, from a Bicycle Thief
Nothing is again simple, but everything is clear. This is the great lesson of empathy. We are all the bicycle thief.
Brad Cran
· 24 min read
Long Read
A collection of 239 posts
Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane
The subject of Bob Dylan’s famous 1976 protest song was probably guilty.
Lona Manning
· 26 min read
An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
This research explores, through the reports of parents, a phenomenon whereby teens and young adults who did not exhibit childhood signs of gender issues appeared to suddenly identify as transgender.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History
For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 18 min read
How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education
To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.
Lyell Asher
· 23 min read
The Death of a Dreamer
When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.
Will Storr
· 16 min read
Confessions of a Soulless Troglodyte — How My Brooklyn Literary Friendships Fell Apart in the Age of Trump
For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didn’t ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts.
Lester Berg
· 18 min read
Not All Dead White Men — A Review
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 23 min read
The New Patriarchy — How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children, and Trans People
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
Helen Joyce
· 32 min read
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
Conspiracy theories foreclose the possibility of explanation, because they postulate unalterable conclusions in search of evidence instead of following evidence to plausible conclusions.
Jamie Palmer
· 28 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
My father taught me a simple lesson: when the alarm clock goes off, you get out of bed, have a shave, wash yourself, put your clothes on and go to work. You’ve got to be resilient and you’ve got to be focused on what you want to achieve.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read
The Public Humiliation Diet
In today’s topsy-turvy world, virtue signaling trumps being virtuous.
Toby Young
· 23 min read
I Was a Female Incel
Women have acquired unprecedented sexual, economic, and political freedom in the span of a few short generations.
Hayley Morrison
· 24 min read
What Is the Tribe of the Anti-Tribalists?
Considering some of the sobering political implications of tribalism might do more to loosen its grip on the tribalists than would more anti-tribalist rebuttals.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 25 min read
Devastation and Denial — Cambodia and the Academic Left
Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
Matthew Blackwell
· 19 min read