Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism? The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis. Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer 13 Jun 2021 · 16 min read
How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization The Jochid khans considered the Russian principalities part of their dominion. Marie Favereau 11 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
Masochistic Nationalism—A Review Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial. Rumy Hasan 15 May 2021 · 7 min read
The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia. Bruce Bourque 29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read
Do Lockdowns Work? Only If You Lock the Borders Down, Too The public debate around COVID-19 has too often centred on the question of whether a certain set of measures, usually classified as lockdowns, are or are not effective. Noah Carl 15 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism. Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller 23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970. Baz Edmeades 6 Sep 2020 · 10 min read
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World A NASA scientist predicted simultaneous collapses of food systems on multiple continents at once. Michael Shellenberger 8 Jul 2020 · 37 min read
Immigration and Inequality For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet. Christopher Caldwell 6 Apr 2020 · 8 min read
Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates Migration in the Mediterranean has increased in recent weeks to the highest level since the EU-Turkey deal in March, 2016, and Greece is back to being the main entry point for hopeful migrants. Nektaria Stamouli 13 Sep 2019 · 6 min read
An Argument Against Open Borders and Liberal Hubris Progressives should remember that civilisation is not a science laboratory. Ben Sixsmith 27 Aug 2017 · 7 min read