The 'Lab Leak' Inquiry at the State Department Anyone who cares about ensuring that the lab-leak hypothesis is taken seriously should probably be thanking me, rather than vilifying me. Christopher Ashley Ford 14 Jun 2021 · 20 min read
Understanding the Unidentified With the decline of religious belief over the past century, perhaps this is what lies behind this quest to understand the unidentified. Michael Shermer 3 Jun 2021 · 22 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Governmentâs Race Report Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report âdenied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.â Damian Counsell 17 May 2021 · 24 min read
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature âThe hardest thing in the world to do,â wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, âis to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is Samuel Kronen 2 May 2021 · 24 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID âCold Spotâ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It? Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 30 Mar 2021 · 21 min read
Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot. Samuel Kronen 27 Mar 2021 · 29 min read
Mailer and the Second Wavers âThe Prisoner of Sexââin both magazine and book formâwas largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millettâs bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics. Charlotte Allen 22 Mar 2021 · 31 min read
Leaving Portland Leaving was a relief but also a loss. Thereâs plenty to love about Portland. Michael J. Totten 14 Mar 2021 · 22 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising. Eric Kaufmann 12 Mar 2021 · 24 min read
To Expower the People Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity. Theodore Gioia 10 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
"I Was Never More Hated Than When I Tried to Be Honest" Allergic to narrow-mindedness, poor taste, and moral arrogance, Ellison detested any kind of racial essentialism, separatism, and determinism. Samuel Kronen 28 Dec 2020 · 26 min read
The Question of Affirmative Action: An Interview with Glenn Loury Education was not equal in 1930 for blacks and whites, nor in 1950, nor in 1970 for that matter. Michael Sandel and Glenn Loury 16 Dec 2020 · 19 min read
Requiem for a Female Serial KillerâA Review Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense. Charlotte Allen 8 Dec 2020 · 20 min read
Victimhood or Development? Itâs a very interesting development in the black community and itâs a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development. Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Shelby Steele and Eli Steele 19 Nov 2020 · 32 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successesâthough these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced. Benny Morris 5 Oct 2020 · 20 min read
