Then They Came for Beethoven Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive. Daniel Lelchuk 19 Sep 2020 · 7 min read
Anti-Racist Structuralists and Non-Racist Culturalists Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity. G. Thomas Burgess 13 Sep 2020 · 18 min read
The Challenge of Marxism For a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, most Americans and Europeans regarded Marxism as an enemy that had been defeated once and for all. But they were wrong. Yoram Hazony 16 Aug 2020 · 22 min read
Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own ‘Lived Experience’ Says Otherwise By means of this damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t logic, cancel-culture Truthers can pretend away the existence of thousands of victims. Colin Wright 30 Jul 2020 · 11 min read
A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it. Joshua T. Katz 8 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
America Exports Cancel Culture to the World Consider the way charges of “racism” have been used to target individuals. Rob Henderson 2 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
JK Rowling Is Right—Sex Is Real and It Is Not a "Spectrum" Biological sex in humans is a binary system. Colin Wright 7 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
Condemn this Violence without Equivocation The protests are not merely the legitimate exercise of constitutional rights to assemble and to petition our government—they are essential for sustaining the moral health of our democracy. Glenn C. Loury 3 Jun 2020 · 4 min read
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons In the absence of any comprehensive database of COVID-19 superspreading events, I built my own. Jonathan Kay 23 Apr 2020 · 21 min read
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire—A Review The city of Rome likely had a population of over a million by the time the Emperor Augustus died (August 19th, AD 14). Jaspreet Singh Boparai 11 Apr 2020 · 17 min read
Romance and Retribution As institutions grow and evolve, they inevitably require reform, but that task can only be entrusted to those who have its best interests at heart. Jamie Palmer 31 Mar 2020 · 34 min read
The Two Middle Classes The struggle between the two middle classes is not just a matter of wealth and power, but also of retaining the social basis for democracy itself. Joel Kotkin 27 Feb 2020 · 10 min read
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776 There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines. Wilfred Reilly 17 Feb 2020 · 10 min read
Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen She believed that Europe should not be a centralizing power that incubated supranational institutions—particularly as this model of centralization was just then in the throes of spectacular failure within the Soviet Union. Johan Wennström 7 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse. Janet Mackay 5 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
