On the Trail of Delusion—A Review
Why did anyone ever believe Jim Garrison or allow him to ruin the life of an entirely innocent man?
Gerald Posner
· 11 min read
Review
A collection of 184 posts
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories'
The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice.
Jonathan Church
· 8 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
· 9 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
· 13 min read
The Conservative Manifesto Buried in 'Avengers: Endgame'
If you haven’t seen Endgame yet—or if you take comfort in the delusion that Marvel is “woke”—stop reading now.
Aaron Sibarium
· 10 min read
The Goodness Paradox—A Review
Biologists have lately awoken to the news that their science makes them heretics in the postmodern imperium, and guilty of retailing the ideas most heretical to the progressive, constructivist, utopian-egalitarian worldview.
Didier Maleuvre
· 7 min read
Old Masters Remix: A review of 'Life Death Rebirth', the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
Jacob Willer
· 12 min read
'Vice'—A Review
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
Louise Perry
· 7 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read
A Night Out with a Muslim and an Atheist
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
Andy Ngo
· 5 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
· 23 min read
Progressive Creationism — A Review of A Dangerous Idea
“In fact, with the rise of the Offense Culture, the Left’s attacks on science have become more intense. Expect more of them.”
Toby Young
· 11 min read
The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling
The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.
Christian Berggren
· 15 min read
She Has Her Mother's Laugh — The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity: A Review
The real problem with this book is that, to Zimmer and many other people, genetics itself is the enemy.
Gregory Cochran
· 7 min read
The War on Normal People
Recognising that there is a problem is half the battle.
Uri Harris
· 8 min read