The Need for a Culture of Achievement
Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean.
Robert Tracinski
· 12 min read
Politics
A collection of 531 posts
The Free-ish World
A review of World in Danger: Germany and Europe in an Uncertain Time by Wolfgang Ischinger, Brookings, 280 pages (November, 2020) Every winter in Bavaria, the great and the good from Europe and the United States gather to take stock of the threats facing the world. The Munich Security Conference
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Burgis on Hitchens—Getting Radicalism Wrong
I anticipated a more thoughtful exploration of Christopher Hitchens’s political history and relevance than what Ben Burgis provided.
Matt Johnson
· 15 min read
Taiwan, Ukraine, and Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations Revisited
Putin believes that the current crisis puts principled opposition to authoritarian empire-building at odds with the imperatives of faith and history, as well as the pragmatic imperative of keeping Germans supplied with energy.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Academic Ideologues Are Corrupting STEM. The Silent Liberal Majority Must Fight Back
We need to break the spell of illiberal ideology, and come back to our collective senses—to stop self-censoring in fear of the mob and excusing nonsense in the name of political allyship, and to start defending the values of pluralism, humanism, and democracy.
Anna Krylov and Jay Tanzman
· 10 min read
The Aristocracy of Talent—A Review
Wooldridge argues that meritocracy can only survive if it is infused with an ethos that prioritizes virtue, applying talent to ends that ennoble rather than enrich.
Razib Khan
· 12 min read
A Late Obituary for a Country: Yugoslavia (1918–1991)
Yugoslavia is dead, and it isn’t coming back.
Maria Vivod
· 12 min read
The Eyes Have It
For the “new intellectual,” ultimately, the way forward has to be paved with nuance and understanding.
David Cohen
· 10 min read
Troll Exposure
Hell hath no fury like a trolled daughter’s father: When multiple media houses and friends of friends from far overseas approach me and my family over a devastating, soul-destroying, career-ending lie, then the time of any person to act has arrived. It’s time to protect your daughter and
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
What a Free Republic Owes Thomas Jefferson
Late in his life, John Adams sent a letter to his great political rival Thomas Jefferson in which he wrote, “You and I ought not to die before we have explained ourselves to each other.” Adams must have understood Jefferson by the end, because on the 50th anniversary of the
Brian Stewart
· 8 min read
Zemmour’s Final Word
The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.
RJ Smith
· 10 min read
The Sorry State of Political Apologies
Political apologies are quickly forgotten.
Michael McCullough
· 5 min read
The Enemy of My Enemy
But let’s remain clear in our minds what they really stand for, because sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out, in the long run, to be just another enemy.
Robert Tracinski
· 8 min read
On Pleasurable Beliefs
This erosion of trust has created an epistemic crisis that makes it difficult to defend a position, because one’s sources of information can always be called into question.
Thomas Harper
· 12 min read
We Can’t Keep Going Like This
R. James Carter
· 13 min read