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The Return to Archaic Forms of Power—An Interview with Marianne Stidsen

A basic principle of Western societies – in addition to the fact that all people are born free and equal – is openness to criticism.

Paulina Neuding

8 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

The Politics of Procreation

The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.

Joel Kotkin

5 Sep 2019 · 9 min read

A Letter From Hong Kong

The myths of the obedient Hong Kong child, of the disciplined dronelike worker, of the person who puts money above everything else, are shattered for ever.

Peter Baehr

3 Sep 2019 · 7 min read

The Drayton Icon and Intellectual Vice

Nevertheless, Drayton’s diatribe does reveal something important—not much about me, something about him, but mostly about the vices that fester in certain reaches of our universities, which serve to undermine rational dialogue and public norms of liberal civility.

Nigel Biggar

27 Aug 2019 · 19 min read

Facebook Already Controls Our Information. Don’t Let It Control Our Commerce

But while other cryptocurrencies can serve to increase our personal freedom and privacy, Libra, which is scheduled for launch in 2020, likely would have the opposite effect.

Nadim Kobeissi

20 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

How the Hong Kong Protestors’ Tactical Brilliance Backed Beijing into a Corner

Just as they are doing with seemingly every obstacle in their way, Hong Kong protesters innovated around the need for a strong leader.

Nick Taber

19 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review

Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself.

Steven Volynets

17 Aug 2019 · 9 min read

Straw Men and Viewpoint Manicheanism

Each “side” sees the other’s behavior as evidence of evil, and their own behavior as justified on the ground that we good folks must defend ourselves against them.

Rick Repetti

14 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

Rationalizing Modern Drug Prejudices

Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.

Matthew Blackwell

12 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

How (and Why) to KISSASS

On June 29, the New York Times published an essay entitled “I’ve Picked My Job Over My Kids,” in which lawyer and law professor Lara Bazelon wrote movingly about her professional life, how much personal satisfaction she derives from it, and how it gives meaning to her days. In

Kevin Mims

6 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

China and the Difficulties of Dissent

As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.

Simon Leitch

5 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

How Feminism Paved the Way for Transgenderism

Like any significant historical event, this gender revolution has multiple causes.

Michael Biggs

1 Aug 2019 · 11 min read

Empiricism and Dogma: Why Left and Right Can't Agree on Climate Change

Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, in which logical agents act in ways that run counter to the longterm interests of the group.

Patrick T. Brown

30 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Why isn’t Jordan Peterson on This List of the World’s Top Fifty Intellectuals?

What is worse, it is in denial about how little power and influence it has outside of a few institutions, whose reputations suffer as they grow increasingly narrow-minded and mediocre.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

26 Jul 2019 · 18 min read

A Canadian Human Rights Spectacle Exposes the Risks of Unfettered Gender Self-ID

The central point of gender self-ID is that you are taking someone to be a woman or a man solely on the basis of what they claim

Helen Joyce

25 Jul 2019 · 11 min read