Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy? Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference. Andy Ngo 22 Jun 2018 · 7 min read
Social Justice is Popular. But the Rule of Law is Sacrosanct But law and social justice do not always go hand in hand—at least, not in the short term. Jonathan Kay 14 Jun 2018 · 8 min read
What’s Wrong with the American Academy A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic. Jonathan Anomaly 7 Jun 2018 · 6 min read
Oppression, The Flag, and the Quarterback Whose Aim is Untrue But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them. Susan Lehman 22 Oct 2017 · 9 min read
Universal Basic Income And The Threat of Tyranny In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights? Shai Shapira 9 Oct 2017 · 7 min read
The Brains Trust of Intersectionality These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios. Sumantra Maitra 15 Sep 2017 · 5 min read
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats. Oliver Traldi 2 Sep 2017 · 15 min read
On Betrayal by the Left – Talking with Ex-Muslim Sarah Haider There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change. Jeffrey Tayler 16 Mar 2017 · 12 min read
The Regressive Left and Its Word Games When government officials and legislators omit any mention of Islamism as an antecedent to violence, they are inoculating dangerous ideas from the searing eye of rational criticism. Gregory Gorelik 10 Jul 2016 · 5 min read
