Why Taiping 2.0 Isn't in the Cards: A Reply to 'China’s Looming Class Struggle'
Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.
D. Marshall
· 9 min read
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Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender
It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.
Deirdre McCloskey
· 19 min read
Sheep and Mirrors: On Being Social
What is it about other people that bestows such joy, such comfort, such indispensable meaning on our lives?
Emma Wilkins
· 13 min read
The Culture War in Communication Studies
Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.
Terry Newman
· 21 min read
Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension
We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.
Matthew Small
· 5 min read
Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario
The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 11 min read
Elite Colleges Reconsidered
The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.
Erich J. Prince
· 14 min read
What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
Louise Perry
· 11 min read
Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
'For the Love of Men'—A Review
I am sure that men, and the world in general, would be better off if we could foster more intimate male friendships and more honest interaction between men and doctors but some idealised vision of male sensitivity might shatter when confronted with the stresses of the world.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read
Palestine Misunderstood
Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.
Petra Marquardt-Bigman
· 10 min read
The Danger Is Real: Why We’re All Wired for ‘Constructive Conspiracism’
In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.
Michael Shermer
· 10 min read
Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project
This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.
Joseph R. Fornieri
· 9 min read
The Simple Secret of Trump's Supreme Political Confidence: Old-Fashioned Fan Mail
The CPAC crowd loved Trump’s message—not his theatrics or his celebrity, but his message—and the fervent reaction to him far out-stripped that of every other speaker, including the many White House hopefuls who sought the GOP nomination in 2012.
Mark Halperin
· 7 min read