A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology
Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.
Paul Berman
· 41 min read
Narrated
A collection of 104 posts
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
Richard Dawkins
· 12 min read
The Case for Life on Mars
Settling Mars isn’t just about making humanity a multi-planetary species. It is about improving life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for everyone on Earth.
Stephen Fleming
· 15 min read
Melvin Lasky: Diary of a Cold Warrior
Melvin Lasky was an indefatigable defender of the liberal spirit during the recovery of postwar Germany.
Oscar Clarke
· 13 min read
The Professor, His Nemesis, and a Scandal at Oberlin
The story of how a liberal college promoted and defended an Iranian Islamist and betrayed its own values.
Roya Hakakian
· 31 min read
Disuniting Australia
What happens when the values of multiculturalism conflict with homophobic, misogynistic, and deeply anti-democratic strains of Islam?
Alan Davison
· 17 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Making America British Again
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.
David A. Wilson
· 13 min read
The New Political Christianity
Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values.
Adam Wakeling
· 9 min read
Recycling Plastic Is a Dangerous Waste of Time
The recycling industry—and the world at large—has yet to fully reckon with a bombshell study that dropped last year.
Frank Celia
· 17 min read
In Defence of John Money
How did this famed sexologist become reviled at both ends of the culture-war horseshoe?
Alex Byrne
· 12 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
· 15 min read