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The current frenzy of right-wing cancel culture recalls the progressive lunacy that followed the murder of George Floyd. But the current iteration is more dangerous because it is backed by state power.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Political discourse during our polarised moment can be vicious and exhausting, but it is still preferable to the alternative.
The postwar decline of the West was not sabotage, it was conviction slowly unwound in the face of horror.
China’s military parade was a distraction from the country’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
Why did this particular crime cut through the daily background noise of American violence?
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
The Gaza aid-site controversy and a crisis of journalism.
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s doctrine of self-reliance has been corrupted by social media, wellness culture, conspiracy theorists, and the “sovereign citizen” movement.
The real hoax is the one being peddled by the Trump administration right now.
Wokeness has not retreated—it has simply shapeshifted.
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
The double standard in the way in which fascism and communism, the extremist ideologies of the Right and Left, are regarded distorts political discourse.