Towards a Post-Hamas Future The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way. John Aziz 7 Oct 2024 · 8 min read
Stoicism: A Life-Changing Philosophy Stoicism is a workout that builds emotional strength, a caulking of the timbers to enable us to weather the coming storms—a preparation we make precisely because the ocean voyage is so rewarding. Iona Italia 27 Sep 2024 · 23 min read
The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself. Megan Gafford 20 Sep 2024 · 27 min read
I Blew Up My Lucrative Public-Service Career (And So Can You) A veteran of British Columbia’s public-sector workforce explains how DEI enforcers forced him to choose between keeping his job and honouring his values. Nick Osmond-Jones 16 Sep 2024 · 23 min read
A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism. Paul Berman 9 Sep 2024 · 41 min read
Gaslighting Scottish Rape Victims in the Name of ‘Trans Inclusion’ For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen? Joan Smith 4 Aug 2024 · 17 min read
Remembering 9 Thermidor, the End of the Terror 9 Thermidor was a victory over a bloodthirsty tyranny claiming to act in the name of progressive ideals. Cathy Young 2 Aug 2024 · 22 min read
Empathy for the Devil: The Fantasy of ‘Progressive Realism’ Realists may believe international relations is all about mindless forces balancing and smashing into each other, but it’s actually about ideology, institutions, history, and the personalities of human beings. Matt Johnson 30 Jul 2024 · 20 min read
The German Left’s Jewish Dilemma Many German leftists, mindful of the country’s past, still support Israel. But they risk being outnumbered by antisemitic Muslim immigrants and by decolonialist radicals. Gerfried Ambrosch 25 Jul 2024 · 11 min read
Unbowed but Gravely Wounded Salman Rushdie’s new memoir, ‘Knife,’ describes the assassination attempt its author survived and offers a moving contemplation of mortality. Paul Berman 3 Jun 2024 · 15 min read
How French Intellectuals Ruined the West Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained. Helen Pluckrose 7 May 2024 · 18 min read
Misadventures of a Stalinist Stooge Benn Steil’s engrossing new biography of Henry A. Wallace is a timely cautionary tale and a masterpiece of 20th-century American history. Ronald Radosh 25 Apr 2024 · 23 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part II: Fanaticism and Failure (1966–2022) After half a decade of critical adulation, Godard’s career slumped into doctrinaire Maoism, bitterness, incomprehensibility, and irrelevance. It never recovered. Charlotte Allen 16 Apr 2024 · 36 min read
Jean-Luc Godard in Retrospect Part I: Abstraction Hero (1930–65) A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly. Charlotte Allen 10 Apr 2024 · 33 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read
