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"These Are Very Bad Dudes" — David Buss on Sexual Conflict and the Dark Triad

So sexual conflict is pervasive, and the evolutionary perspective adds a lot of clarity to where and why men and women get into conflict and the particular manifestations it takes in the human case.

Claire Lehmann

23 Sep 2021 · 22 min read

Chinese Culture and the Red Line of Morality

Even the Soviet Union had its Bulgakovs and its Pasternaks, of course, and there is no doubt that art sometimes flourishes in an atmosphere of oppression.

Aaron Sarin

20 Sep 2021 · 7 min read

Looking for COVID-19 ‘Miracle Drugs’? We Already Have Them. They’re Called Vaccines

The evidence that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines are safe, and that they work, is about as solid as medical evidence gets.

Claire Berlinski and Yuri Deigin

6 Jul 2021 · 14 min read

James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature

“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is 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

For Our Own Good, We All Need a Glimpse of the Evil Queen

I have never seen a dream present something I believed to be untrue.

Jordan Peterson

7 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

How a Single Anonymous Twitter Account Caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian University to Unravel

The main beneficiaries are more likely to be privileged administrators who burnish their bona fides by filling alumni magazines and email blasts with Indigenous photo-ops.

Jonathan Kay

6 Mar 2021 · 17 min read

Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks

The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer.

Christopher J. Snowdon

16 Jan 2021 · 19 min read

Songs from Orwell's Glass Asylum

Bowie’s album beautifully captures the essential romance in the story.

David Cohen

10 Jan 2021 · 10 min read

A Defense of Offensive Jokes

Some jokes, even in the joking relationship, are beyond the pale, and there should be some margin left for pushback against jokes that do actually go over the line. But offensive humour, in private relationships, has a useful purpose and should not be thrown out entirely.

Bill Peel

8 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media

People who don’t actively seek out books or articles inevitably lead more restricted lives because extended prose remains the most effective means of communicating complex ideas.

Joe Nutt

30 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb—A Review

Freak Power is a fascinating look into the heart of a grassroots political campaign during a violent era in American history, as one man channelled the rage and confusion of a maligned subculture into a surprisingly coherent and subversive political movement.

David S. Wills

24 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?

This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.

Abigail Shrier

7 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race

What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity.

Jeff Rubin

24 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

Forget What Gender Activists Tell You. Here’s What Medical Transition Looks Like

Medical transition, such as the kind I went through, can enhance an illusion that helps some gender dysphoric individuals navigate the world with more comfort.

Scott Newgent

6 Oct 2020 · 8 min read