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Streaming Will Never Be as Bad as Cable

Some of these services will offer really good value to consumers, and those that don’t will quickly become irrelevant.

23 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

In Space, Let Meritocracy Reign Supreme

Those who travel to Mars will not need to debate free markets, bureaucracy, or state control of the means of production. They will not care about the ethnicity or gender identity of their peers. They will be too busy figuring out how to survive.

Craig DeLancey

22 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools

Abolishing attendance zones will not make the problems of our education system disappear overnight.

Tim DeRoche

21 Jan 2020 · 16 min read

Can We Boost Empathy Through Perspective-Taking?

One of the ways we have been taught to nurture empathy is by deliberately trying to take the perspective of a suffering person.

Michael McCullough

21 Jan 2020 · 6 min read

How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?

Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.

Art Keller

20 Jan 2020 · 12 min read

Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult

Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.

Cathy Young

19 Jan 2020 · 16 min read

Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames

It’s really a collection of subcultures, since fans of one gaming niche often have little interest in any of the others.

Jonathan Kay

17 Jan 2020 · 13 min read

Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs

Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.

Marcus Evans

17 Jan 2020 · 19 min read

Studying the Links Between White Supremacist Terrorists and School Shooters

John Horgan, a psychologist who interviewed a large number of terrorists, concluded that they tend to have seven common traits.

Yagil Henkin

14 Jan 2020 · 13 min read

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.

Barbara Kay

14 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Gambling in a Time of Despair

If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.

Roy Wayne Meredith III

13 Jan 2020 · 9 min read

Demoted and Placed on Probation

One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”

Stuart Reges

11 Jan 2020 · 14 min read

My University’s Plan for a Brave New World

The plan’s introduction, “Jobs as Central to Life,” starts by praising the liberal arts. But like Hamlet’s insincere Player Queen, it doth protest too much.

Jacob Howland

11 Jan 2020 · 6 min read