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Party for One

Masturbation is a unique form of sex. It was frowned upon in some eras, tolerated in others, and celebrated in none.

Philip Mathias

27 May 2019 · 6 min read

How Progressivism Enabled the Rise of the Populist Right

Progressives will look askance at these policies, decrying them as racist and fleeing to Green or other political alternatives.

Eric Kaufmann

27 May 2019 · 9 min read

Michael Oakeshott and the Intellectual Roots of Postmodern Conservatism

For instance, postmodern conservatives are reticent to trust rationalistic arguments made by cosmopolitan “elites” who stress that we have moral obligations to all individuals, regardless of where they come from.

Matt McManus

25 May 2019 · 10 min read

The Crisis of Sense-Making

The first impulse, typically, has been to understand these changes in purely political terms. And so, in this telling, the crisis in sense-making is merely a series of political conflicts, with winners and losers.

Jeffrey Quackenbush

25 May 2019 · 9 min read

How Can We Manage the Process of Western ‘Whiteshift’?

Ethno-traditional nationalists favour slower immigration in order to permit enough immigrants to voluntarily assimilate into the ethnic majority, maintaining the white ethno-tradition.

Eric Kaufmann

24 May 2019 · 13 min read

Tolkien—A Review

The real-life Tolkien, who loathed trite allegory, would have cringed.

Charlotte Allen

24 May 2019 · 7 min read

Why We Should Embrace Our Age of Nuclear

Twenty-nine of the 34 members of the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) voted this week to declare the invention and testing of nuclear weapons as the beginning of the Anthropocene or geological age of humans.

Michael Shellenberger

24 May 2019 · 9 min read

How the IDW Can Avoid the Tribalist Pull

Regardless of how one feels about the “IDW” brand, the heterodox movement associated with that label has had a significant and largely positive cultural impact.

Cathy Young

24 May 2019 · 11 min read

Religious Faith and the Family: An Interview with Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox

In the main, religion is a force for good in the families we examined in this report—from 11 countries ranging from Mexico to Canada, from the United States to Ireland.

Clay Routledge

23 May 2019 · 6 min read

Free University Tuition: A Cautionary Note from Germany

Tuition-free universities also have problems with student motivation. Most Americans who teach ordinary classes in Germany find average German students somewhat less motivated than their dues-paying American counterparts.

Andrew Hammel

22 May 2019 · 6 min read

Straight to Hell: Millenarianism and the Green New Deal

With the Green New Deal, secular apocalyptic ideas have entered the mainstream of American politics. Millenarian thinking has always been present in the US, but it was avowedly religious.

David Adler

21 May 2019 · 11 min read

Rethinking Abortion Advocacy

Arbitrary doesn’t mean random and it doesn’t mean cruel.

Coleman Hughes

21 May 2019 · 8 min read

Identity, Islam, and the Twilight of Liberal Values—A Review

Rather than exposing and opposing the damage done by Islamism in the West, soi disant liberals, leftists, and progressives have acted as its supporters and cheerleaders.

Rumy Hasan

20 May 2019 · 6 min read

The Abortion Issue Isn’t About ‘The Patriarchy’

The debate over the morality and legality of abortion is one of the most divisive and enduring issues in American public life.

Andrew Glover

18 May 2019 · 6 min read

Goodbye, Herman Wouk

On May 17th, American novelist Herman Wouk died, just ten days before he was due to turn 104. If Ernest Hemingway’s life and career had been as long as those of Herman Wouk, he’d have been alive as recently as 2003 and he’d have published a book

Kevin Mims

18 May 2019 · 8 min read