What Can We Learn from Dictators' Literature? Dictators, of course, are terrible people. They also tend to be terrible writers. Yet many tyrants have entertained the illusion that they were literary super geniuses. Mein Kampf and Quotations from Chairman Mao (aka The Little Red Book) are the best-known works in the dictatorial canon, but they represent only Daniel Kalder 14 Dec 2018 · 10 min read
Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours. Andrew Yang 14 Dec 2018 · 9 min read
"I Now Understand How Nelson Mandela Felt" So what are we to make of my ban? The only sensible conclusion is that Twitter is run by a coterie of crypto-fascists. Titania McGrath 13 Dec 2018 · 3 min read
What Happened to Gawker? An Interview with Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday’s book 'Conspiracy' tells the story of Peter Thiel’s decade-long campaign against Gawker Media. Stephen Elliott 13 Dec 2018 · 16 min read
Inside a Google Summit on Diversity and Inclusion Sadly, it doesn’t seem Google has learned much since James Damore’s firing. Joseph Klein 11 Dec 2018 · 6 min read
Not All Dead White Men—A Review How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence? Jaspreet Singh Boparai 11 Dec 2018 · 23 min read
What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Mean Today? The UDHR’s crucial claim is that the question of man’s nature is not merely academic or philosophical. It has moral consequences. Alexandra Hudson 11 Dec 2018 · 15 min read
A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion As a parent of an ROGD teen, it has been so disheartening to see so few mainstream sources publishing balanced views on this topic. We have glowing “protransition” pieces in the left-wing press, and (often) angry, and even anti-trans pieces in the right-wing or religious press. These articles are just Samuel Veissière 9 Dec 2018 · 7 min read
Orwell and the Anti-Totalitarian Left in the Age of Trump No matter how bitterly they attack one another, they still share many of the same principles and enemies—a fact that should be just as clear to them today as it was a few years ago. Matt Johnson 9 Dec 2018 · 16 min read
What Happened When We Tried to Debate Immigration Unless we find a way of side-stepping the extremes and debating these issues in an evidence-led, analytical way then the moderate. Matthew Goodwin / Eric Kaufmann 8 Dec 2018 · 17 min read
Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren't Violence The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence. Alexandra Berryhill 7 Dec 2018 · 10 min read
Academics' Mobbing of a Young Scholar Must be Denounced Which of these, or any of Dr Carl’s other papers, contain “vital errors in data-analysis”? We’re not told. Quillette 7 Dec 2018 · 8 min read
The Flawed History and Real Torment of Canada's Residential Schools Brian was just one of thousands of Indigenous children who were subjected to horrendous abuse at Canada’s Indian residential schools. Robert MacBain 4 Dec 2018 · 14 min read
The One-sided Worldview of Eco-Pessimists Pessimists see the goal of human activity as minimizing human impacts; optimists understand the goal of human activity to be maximizing human flourishing. Joanna Szurmak and Pierre Desrochers 3 Dec 2018 · 14 min read
The Unsafe Feminist: Rebecca West and the ‘Bitter Rapture’ of Truth Infantilism goes along with illiberalism, because while a liberal society requires a baseline of human freedom and responsibility. Peter Baehr 3 Dec 2018 · 10 min read
