White Lotus, Red Dragon—China’s History of Millenarian Dissent
When one woman refused and snapped at them to “go away,” they attacked her with a chair and mop handle.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read
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Thomas Sowell: Tragic Optimist
In his 2000 memoir A Personal Odyssey, Sowell recounts a parable that was read to him as a young boy and which he never forgot.
Samuel Kronen
· 29 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
· 11 min read
Australia’s Population Ponzi Scheme
The environmental havoc is justified as needed for the economy, but the evidence does not support this claim.
Kelvin Thomson
· 4 min read
George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'
Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
The Fall of Beirut
Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.
Art Keller
· 11 min read
Lessons from the Last Empire of Iran
Despite the uncertainties and tensions that characterize modern political life, we would do well to remember that the future we want is never the future we actually get, and that civilisation will outlast the fragility of politics.
Michael Bonner
· 10 min read
Easy Rider: 50 Years Looking for America—A Review
Easy Rider is an important movie—much more important than a simple measure of its quality would suggest—which is probably why the American Film Institute, among others, continues to rate it so highly.
Graham Daseler
· 14 min read
Christopher Hitchens, Anti-Identitarian
Hitchens didn’t just see how identity politics could warp a person’s ideas and principles—he understood that it could replace them altogether.
Matt Johnson
· 8 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
· 10 min read
Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr
Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before.
Andrew Rankin
· 10 min read
What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
Louise Perry
· 12 min read
'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred
The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.
Benedict Beckeld
· 8 min read
Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
Pascal Bruckner
· 25 min read
Age of Amnesia
The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read