A collection of 186 posts
A brief five-year period produced nearly all the Godard movies that film aficionados still remember, but even these celebrated works have dated poorly.
The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all.
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has made a name for herself as one of STEM’s most implacable activists. Now the targets of her online attacks are fighting back.
The cold allows me to feel alive.
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Progressive anti-Zionism and the poisonous legacy of Cold War hatred.
In a new book, Rachel Chrastil artfully illuminates the history of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, in all its senseless horror.
The story of how activists and academics exchanged the struggle for universal female improvement for a politics of division and hatred.
A short history of phoney peace groups and their fellow travellers.
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Women create whisper networks to keep themselves safe from antisocial male behaviour. But unfortunately, such networks can be highjacked by our antisocial female peers.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.