The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded. Holly Lawford-Smith 27 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Humanism and Its Discontents Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes. Robert Huddleston 16 Nov 2023 · 10 min read
Trans Identity and the Right to Exist This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century. Holly Lawford-Smith 6 Oct 2023 · 10 min read
The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap. Yascha Mounk 4 Oct 2023 · 16 min read
The Cancellation of Bertrand Russell Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled. James Huffman 15 Sep 2023 · 9 min read
On Political Hatred On everything from Syrian refugees through Brexit and climate change to so-called gender-affirmative medicine, people take a totalizing approach to disagreement: either you agree with me, or you are despicable. Holly Lawford-Smith 24 Aug 2023 · 7 min read
Left is Not Woke: An Interview with Susan Neiman In undermining universalism and moral progress, "wokeism" is inherently reactionary. Maarten Boudry 28 May 2023 · 14 min read
The Sanctification of the Self The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law. Megan Wildhood 21 Apr 2023 · 8 min read
Heidegger’s Downfall Richard Wolin’s reappraisal of Martin Heidegger offers both original contributions and a synthesis of critical scholarship. The result is a timely work of enduring importance. Jeffrey Herf 22 Feb 2023 · 18 min read
Aristotle (and the Stoics): An Interview with John Sellars A new book by John Sellars explores the life’s work and extraordinary legacy of the man he has provocatively called “the single most important human being ever to have lived.” Riley Moore 19 Feb 2023 · 20 min read
On Conservative Socialism Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon. Seamus Flaherty 27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read
Brute Physical Facts and Social Construction The progressive and the traditionalist are equally detached from the underlying reality as currently described by science. Vinod Goel 6 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
Ending Discrimination by Twitter Gender critical feminists are among those who have been excluded from Twitter for years. The time is right for a correction. Holly Lawford-Smith 28 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Religious Permanence The human brain evolved to be religious, but religion also evolved to appeal to the human brain. Bo Winegard 18 Nov 2022 · 10 min read
The Problems with Longtermism The further we look into the future, the less certain we can be about our predictions and plans. Matt Johnson 27 Oct 2022 · 13 min read
