A collection of 192 posts
Jason Zengerle’s new book about the degradation of a once-gifted writer and broadcaster also illustrates the downward trajectory of the entire news industry during the same period.
The desexing of language in women’s health research and care is a story of the marginalisation of science, cultural imperialism, and abuse of power.
The British establishment tends to deflect attention from the dangers of Islamism by attempting to silence those who point them out.
Aaron Magid has written a timely biography of a consequential monarch.
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.
How Margaret Mead’s romanticised account of Samoan life became the founding myth of cultural determinism—and why it endures despite having been thoroughly debunked.
Napoleon Chagnon documented a society in which violent men enjoyed greater reproductive and marital success. Some of his academic colleagues never forgave him for it.
The refusal to discuss Islamic antisemitism in Australia endangers Jews and threatens social cohesion.
We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.
The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable.
Generative AI, disinformation, and the dangerous temptation of benevolent censorship.
The ideological capture of college writing programs has ushered in an age of didactic, anodyne, and tedious books.