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
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A collection of 129 posts
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
'Oikophobia': Our Western Self-Hatred
The simplest way of defining oikophobia is as the opposite extreme of xenophobia.
Benedict Beckeld
· 7 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
Why China is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past
While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
Divorce and the 'Silver Bullet'
False allegations may be employed by either parent, but, given the prevailing winds of culture, the gun is far more often in the hand of a woman.
James C. Coren
· 13 min read
The Children of the Revolution
Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity.
James David Banker
· 9 min read
Traitors to the Human Mind
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
Jamie Palmer
· 10 min read