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Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man: A Profile of Boris Johnson

The next three months, between now and October 31st, will reveal whether that was a historical premonition or a sophomoric illusion.

Toby Young

23 Jul 2019 · 20 min read

When the Lion Wakes: The Global Threat of the Chinese Communist Party

Aaron Sarin

22 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

Age of Amnesia

The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. The spread of mass education may have exemplified the promise of liberal civilization. But, without an understanding and appreciation of what allowed it to flourish, it could also accelerate its dissolution.

Joel Kotkin

15 Jul 2019 · 9 min read

Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis

This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.

Christopher J. Ferguson

15 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence

In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.

Ernest Nickels

11 Jul 2019 · 9 min read

Immigration Policy and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Liberalism—the Case of Israel

In many countries, immigration policy has turned into a litmus test for democratic sovereignty itself.

Gadi Taub

4 Jul 2019 · 14 min read

How Antifa's Apologists Fell in Love With Street Violence

Antifa movements have sprung up in a variety of countries, often opposing Nazis and Nazi sympathizers while also promoting general far-left politics of the Marxist and communist variety.

Robby Soave

3 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Whither Léon Blum?—Paul Berman's Misplaced Faith in Bernie Sanders

Jeremy Corbyn’s record of praising terrorist organizations and celebrating artwork that looks like it was commissioned by Joseph Goebbels to the long list of condemnations of Labour issued by Jewish organizations in the UK.

Matt Johnson

3 Jul 2019 · 12 min read

A MeToo Mob Tried to Destroy My Life as a Poet. This Is How I Survived

Poetry is made of breath before any sound, any syllable, is uttered . The inhalation is the first word — and reclaiming my craft taught me how to breathe again.

Joseph Massey

28 Jun 2019 · 19 min read

Cornell students emerging from Willard Straight Hall after the takeover.

The Fog of Youth: The Cornell Student Takeover, 50 Years On

The ethical shortcomings of the 1969 Cornell student rebellion, which appear so glaring today, were anything but clear to us radical activists at the time.

Tony Fels

25 Jun 2019 · 27 min read

Sedentary Revolutionaries: Two Academics Who Joined the Nazi Party

No private personal ambition is involved; he simply wishes to obey a sovereign whose legitimacy he will not question.

Jaspreet Singh Boparai

21 Jun 2019 · 20 min read

My Testimony on Reparations

Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.

Coleman Hughes

20 Jun 2019 · 4 min read

'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects

The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.

Jack B. Nimble

17 Jun 2019 · 15 min read

A Modest Defence of the Missionary Position

The irony is that what we often consider the most boring, the most quotidian, the most comically old-fashioned, and unremarkably ordinary way to have sex with another is also the way we encounter our deepest selves because we transcend ourselves to find union with another.

Marilyn Simon

5 Jun 2019 · 11 min read

Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review

It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.

Bo Winegard / Noah Carl

5 Jun 2019 · 21 min read