Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Regressive Left
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What Is #DisruptTexts?
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
Against Cultural Protectionism
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good
For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.
A Poor Farrier's Journey to Political Sanity
I'm still not immune to violent political fantasies, especially when I become angry at scenes of Left-wing protests in Portland, Seattle, and other cities.
The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists
Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.
The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright
Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.
Gates Derangement Syndrome
The suggestion that we ought to be suspicious of Gates’s work on global health—work that has saved millions of lives—because he made a slightly ambiguous comment about U.S. politics is not only absurd, it is also pernicious.
The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win
It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does.
A Black Eye for the Columbia Journalism Review
Essays attacking the left- or right-wing bias of this or that media outlet are, of course, old hat in my business.