The War Against Truth
It has long been a cliché that China is inscrutable to foreigners, but it is also becoming inscrutable to itself.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
Politics
A collection of 647 posts
Sin and Social Science
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
Stop Decriminalising Crime
When a gap opens between what the law punishes and what society believes should be punished, people lose respect for the law and are more likely to violate it.
Paul H. Robinson, Jeffrey Seaman
· 11 min read
The Quincy Institute’s Middle East Fantasies
The positions adopted by the think tank’s scholars during the war in Gaza are illustrative of its overall Middle East agenda: appease Iran and demonise Israel.
Leon Hadar
· 15 min read
In Defence of Manifest 2024
The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.
Theo Jaffee
· 8 min read
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
Something Is Wrong
It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.
Michael Walzer
· 11 min read
Vapid Antiwar-ism
Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.
Brian Stewart
· 9 min read
Political Polarisation in Australia
We are at a crossroads—either we prepare for a world of identity politics and populism, or we restore settlement politics in Australia.
Damien Freeman
· 19 min read
Fear and the Overton Window
The movement to abolish child welfare is endangering children, but professionals are afraid to speak up.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 8 min read
Britain’s Golden Slumber
The British establishment’s China policy resembles a man periodically waking only to fall asleep again.
Aaron Sarin
· 11 min read
The Politicisation of International Justice
A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 11 min read
The Limits of ‘The Israel Lobby’
Mearsheimer and Walt still don’t understand American support for Israel.
Matt Johnson
· 25 min read
Waltzing Down the Road to Hell
The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.
Adam Garfinkle
· 15 min read
What Does It Mean for Something to Be Socially Constructed?
There are at least three things that people might mean by ‘socially constructed’: that something is social, rather than natural; contextual, rather than universal; or that its importance has been inflated.
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 7 min read