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
Long Read
A collection of 234 posts
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
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
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
A Literary Inquisition — How Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
Portland Bakery, White Guilt, and Poisoned Batter
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Andy Ngo
· 15 min read
Behind the Mask — Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
Elham Manea on Fundamentalism and Reform
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
Andy Ngo
· 11 min read
Life Pretending to Be an Egyptian Atheist
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
Anthon Jackson
· 24 min read