Sage of Sex and Psyche
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
Steven Pinker
· 12 min read
Narrated
A collection of 165 posts
Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello
Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.
Helen Pluckrose
· 17 min read
The Open Society and Its New Enemies
What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
The Thunder from Down Under
If Bach was the sound of God whistling while he worked, AC/DC was the sound of God ordering another round in a strip club on Saturday night.
George Case
· 9 min read
The Ceasefire Deal
As Israel and Hamas begin to implement the ceasefire deal, both the immediate and the longer term future remain unclear.
Benny Morris
· 12 min read
The Tyranny of Fragility
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
Samuel Veissière
· 8 min read
This Is Not Late-Stage Capitalism
Automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are set to redefine the relationship between labour, capital, and production.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
Shame on Us for Ever Believing Him
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.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Ghosts of Electricity
The magisterial incomprehensibility of Bob Dylan’s ‘Visions of Johanna.’
Thomas Larson
· 8 min read
Jesus Wasn’t Palestinian
Palestinians’ history, culture, and connection to the land are valid in their own right. We don’t need to appropriate or falsify Jewish history.
John Aziz
· 6 min read
Tyranny Is Not What It Used to Be
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.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
‘Shameless Beyond the Curse of Shamelessness’
In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.
Joan Smith
· 16 min read
The Weak Horse
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
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