Nostalgia for Confinement Why are some in Russia and Eastern Europe pining for the communist system that once oppressed them? John Lloyd 18 Apr 2024 · 8 min read
Cuba’s Imprisoned Truth An interview with the father of Cuban political prisoner Walnier Luis Aguilar Rivera. Justo Antonio Triana 11 Apr 2024 · 11 min read
Beware Cultural Drift Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake. Robin Hanson 11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
The Prophet of October 7? Frantz Fanon’s defenders try to distance him from the of ethos of violence he advocated, even as they embrace his anti-colonialist rhetoric to promote anti-Zionism. Leon Hadar 6 Apr 2024 · 12 min read
Ignore This Article Among the countless articles and words devoted to the expression of opinion in the last 150 years, the vast majority are forgotten endorsements of a status quo, or futile critiques from the sidelines that were soon overtaken by events. George Case 31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
Funhouse-Mirror Fusionism Like the traditionalists and libertarians, integralists and vitalists find themselves advancing analogous causes: one stands for a moral order and cohesive community, and the other for the exceptional individual. Cincinnatus Smith 28 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
Return of the Fortune Tellers Wary of the Abrahamic faiths and increasingly contemptuous of Karl Marx’s alternative, young Chinese are drawn instead to tarot, divination, healers, and mediums. Aaron Sarin 26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
What Is the Labour Party For? Sir Keir Starmer looks likely to become Britain’s next prime minister at a time when the democratic centre-left everywhere is facing a crisis of definition. John Lloyd 26 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
Pious Fraud, or the Moral Licence to Lie Building worldviews and political movements on falsehoods destroys common sense-making, impedes effective policy design, and erodes social trust and cohesion. Brandon McMurtrie 21 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
Toward Ruin or Recovery? The modern feminist response to rape is failing women, and it is failing victims of rape most of all. Larissa Phillips 20 Mar 2024 · 35 min read
Nationalist Self-Hatred The culture war alone cannot explain the civic rot on the populist Right. Matt Johnson 12 Mar 2024 · 18 min read
Unilateral Illiberalism Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview with Vladimir Putin shows that he will never pose a threat to despotism. Brian Stewart 7 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
Immigrant Song Canadians have had to formulate a new language to address new complications posed by immigration, and no one is quite sure how that language should sound. George Case 6 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
Cosmopolis or Bust? In order to function, a cosmopolis must embrace both toleration and the rule of law. Joel Kotkin 5 Mar 2024 · 10 min read
Dan Schueftan on the Palestine-Israel Conflict Pamela Paresky interviews the outspoken Israeli academic. Pamela Paresky 4 Mar 2024 · 34 min read
