Point of Compact The late literary critic and social democrat Irving Howe once quipped that when radicals fail to build a movement, they start a magazine. Howe knew what he was talking about—his own magazine, Dissent, was one of them. The latest example of this truism is a new webzine called Compact Ronald Radosh 12 Apr 2022 · 11 min read
Anatomy of a Murder On New Year’s Eve 2021 news of my killing began to circulate on Twitter. > holy shit this is a murder https://t.co/CwsF0sZ9sZ — Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 1, 2022 [https://twitter.com/juliacarriew/status/1477358519498199043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] I scrolled through scores of posts before Jonathan Gottschall 18 Mar 2022 · 10 min read
Washington Post and NPR Ignore the Rural Backlash Against Renewables During my three decades as a reporter, I’ve seen plenty of hype and poor news coverage about renewable energy. But two recent pieces—in the Washington Post and National Public Radio, respectively—are particularly egregious. These reports demonstrate, yet again, that some of the biggest media entities in the Robert Bryce 7 Mar 2022 · 11 min read
Bitter Fruit: Marshall McLuhan and the Rise of Fake News McLuhan’s phenomenal success stemmed from being in the right place at the right time. Graham Majin 18 Jan 2022 · 16 min read
The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value. Batya Ungar-Sargon 28 Oct 2021 · 8 min read
Scandinavian Airlines: Get Woke, Cry Wolf The message, in short: Nothing is genuinely Scandinavian. Be it meatballs or paternity leave, everything comes from other countries. Paulina Neuding 1 Mar 2020 · 5 min read
As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement. Alexandra Hudson 6 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
Journalists Need to Do a Better Job Matching 'Experts' to Their Actual Expertise By simply letting experts see how they are about to be quoted, everyone will end up happier. Brian Kalt 18 Dec 2019 · 6 min read
Inside the Woke Actors Studio: How I Trained Future Doctors to Police Their Pronouns But pulling off the kind of manipulative narcissism that privileges ideological dogma over real community health needs—that’s the mark of a true pro. Anna Slatz 26 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
The Bolivarian God That Failed The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead. Clifton Ross 1 Feb 2019 · 21 min read
The Institutionalization of Social Justice Last year, Google engineer James Damore was fired after an internal memo he wrote was leaked to technology website Gizmodo, causing an uproar within the company. Uri Harris 17 Nov 2018 · 12 min read
The Comment Awards Fiasco That seems itself to be an example of divisiveness and a snub to one form of diversity: that of diverse opinion. Claire Fox 25 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
Hashtags and Terror Narratives in Toronto Any place can seem ‘no go’ to those who’ve never gone. Jonathan Kay 26 Jul 2018 · 10 min read