The Weak Horse
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Narrated
A collection of 104 posts
Trump and the Academic Cocoon
A New York Times op-ed by a Yale historian tries to see universities from the vantage point of an outsider. Instead, it unwittingly illustrates why universities will not self-correct without external intervention.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Anti-Zionism’s German Roots
While Islam traditionally treated Jews with contempt, antisemitic conspiracy theories imported from Germany escalated this animosity by vilifying Jews as agents of diabolical evil.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 11 min read
Savage Entertainment
A new version of Tinto Brass and Bob Guccione’s notorious 1979 film ‘Caligula’ provides a valuable record of one of the most fascinating disasters in cinema history.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 30 min read
The West Is Next
If we are to fight for liberty for everyone—including Muslims—we must be serious about being ready to stand up to Islamists like Hamas, who seek to revive Islamic imperialism.
John Aziz
· 9 min read
The Baby Gate. A Memoir.
So that’s how a fatherhood ends. A few UPCs, like those you find on packs of toilet tissue, delivered via email.
Steve Salerno
· 23 min read
Death of a Deluded Man
Yahya Sinwar should be remembered above all as a failure whose fetish for Jewish—and Palestinian—blood turned Gaza into dust and rubble.
John Aziz
· 10 min read
Blonde on Blonde
Andrew Dominik’s much-maligned film about the life and death of a screen icon claws through the sentimental myth-making in search of terrible truths.
Charlotte Allen
· 32 min read
Towards a Post-Hamas Future
The events of 7 October did not benefit Palestinians in any way.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Women of 7 October
In that moment, time stood still. There was no context, no history, no argument, no discourse. There was only pain.
Iona Italia
· 4 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
· 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
· 27 min read
Tragedy and Half-Truths: A Gaza Diary
Atef Abu Saif’s ‘Don’t Look Left’ provides a vivid account of the horrors of daily life in the Gaza Strip, yet omits to mention Hamas’s role in the war.
Benny Morris
· 15 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
· 23 min read
Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.
Greg Lukianoff
· 14 min read