The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 min read
Politics
A collection of 566 posts
A Voice from the Heart
Legal equality and the politics of disappointment.
Andrew Gleeson
· 14 min read
Ditching Diversity Myths
In the workplace, deep-level similarity is more important than surface-level diversity.
Ryan Ruffaner
· 10 min read
Woke Capitalism Gets a Black Eye
The dictatorial possibility tucked inside the commitment to “inclusivity” has rebounded, satisfyingly, on the perpetrators.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read
Neuroaffirmation—A Therapist’s Concerns
I worry about the unintended consequences of the neurodiversity movement, particularly when their demands are promulgated religiously and without nuance.
Rita Range
· 10 min read
One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere
Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.
Arturo Desimone
· 7 min read
New Atheism and the Demand for Dogma
The notion that we abandoned our old faiths and replaced them with new ones is too tidy and simplistic.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
The Left’s Social Contract Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It
A relentless focus on dubious forms of ‘oppression’ is alienating traditional leftists. Saving the progressive movement means returning it to its liberal roots
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
A Life in the Fray
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
Jeffrey Herf
· 22 min read
It Doesn’t Make It Alright
The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has ended a hypocritical and incoherent policy.
Andrew Hammel
· 15 min read
The Retreat from Moscow
Prigozhin’s coup attempt raises a number of questions to which there are no reassuring answers.
John Lloyd
· 8 min read
Philanthropy and Pluralism
Foundations are having to fend off pressures to conform to the new philanthropic orthodoxies on race and identity issues.
Naomi Schaefer Riley, James Piereson
· 5 min read
The Threat of Decivilisation
During a recent dinner at the Élysée Palace, the French president was confronted with the possibility that France is slipping into murderous anarchy.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
America Doesn’t Need Regime Change
Patrick Deneen has written a book that reproduces and encourages a form of self-deception that’s pervasive in the United States on the populist Right.
Damon Linker
· 16 min read
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
If Governor DeSantis really wants to protect children, he should forget about the death penalty and institute a “one-strike-and-you’re-out” policy instead.
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 7 min read