Uncomfortable History
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 5 min read
Politics
A collection of 620 posts
Military-Industrial Complexities
President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood.
George Case
· 7 min read
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Steve Salerno
· 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
· 8 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
Aaron Hanna
· 25 min read
The Battle of Sainte-Soline
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read
Sexual and Gender Identity: Four Competing Paradigms
If we are going to expend so much effort on the topic of gender and sexual identity, we should be clear and rigorous in how we think about it.
William Vex
· 15 min read
Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories?
Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation.
David Stoll
· 8 min read
Race and State
The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
The Rise of the Respectable Conspiracy Theory
COVID, Trump, Brexit—everybody’s had something to break their brains in recent years and some people may never recover.
Christopher J. Snowdon
· 14 min read
Canada’s Altruistic Apartheid
Sanctioned racial essentialism for Aboriginals, mandatory multiculturalism for everyone else.
George Case
· 10 min read
Crisis Management
Martin Wolf’s new book is a work of sombre brilliance, but it fails to grapple effectively with the postliberal analysis of what ails liberal democracies.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Fantastical Beliefs in a Post-Christian Age
Without a faith, people must find new sources of meaning, new congregations to which they can belong.
Patrick Parkinson
· 12 min read
Why AUKUS Matters
The deal is a belated response to the Chinese Communist Party’s mushrooming belligerence.
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read