A collection of 79 posts
Last week’s TED Talks in Vancouver featured dozens of brilliant speakers. But the earnest belief that big new ideas can save humanity from itself now feels painfully dated.
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
My best friend had a psychotic break—our crisscrossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
Peter Beinart has responded to the 7 October massacre and subsequent Gaza war with a deeply duplicitous book.
Are we going to defend liberty, openness, and democracy, or are we going to allow radical theocrats and their ideological allies to try to crush our hard-won freedoms?
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
Justin Trudeau convinced me he was a sunny patriot who’d unify Canada. What I got instead was a cynical culture warrior who smeared opponents as bigots and defamed my country as a genocide state.
Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.
In her new book, ‘Autocracy, Inc.,’ historian Anne Applebaum provides us with a distinctive and indispensable guide to one of the great challenges of our time.