Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.
Michael Shellenberger
· 10 min read
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Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics
The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.
Julian Vigo
· 14 min read
Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It
In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.
Irshad Manji
· 5 min read
How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Mary Frances Williams
· 20 min read
Why I'm Suing Twitter
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
Alexandra Hudson
· 8 min read
The Narcissistic Fracturing of LGBT Literature
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
Nick Comilla
· 10 min read
We Must Defend Free Thought
Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
Christopher Sabaitis
· 6 min read
Deepfakes and the Threat to Privacy and Truth
In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes.
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think
Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative.
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning, Bradley Campbell
· 7 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults
Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution.
C.K. Ryan
· 9 min read
What’s Happening to Technological Progress?
We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers.
Hans Peter Dietz
· 9 min read
I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important
Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 6 min read
What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity
This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground.
Joe Hefferon
· 7 min read