Down the 1619 Project’s Memory Hole The announced intention of reframing the country’s origin date struck many readers across the political spectrum as an implicit repudiation of the American revolution and its underlying principles. Phillip W. Magness 19 Sep 2020 · 5 min read
The Challenge of Marxism But the Marxists will not be appeased because what they’re after is the conquest of liberalism itself—already happening as they persuade liberals to abandon their traditional two-party conception of political legitimacy, and with it their commitment to a democratic regime. Yoram Hazony 16 Aug 2020 · 22 min read
A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it. Joshua T. Katz 8 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a general sense that cops treat black people as an enemy. John McWhorter 11 Jun 2020 · 9 min read
COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons In the absence of any comprehensive database of COVID-19 superspreading events, I built my own. Jonathan Kay 23 Apr 2020 · 20 min read
Candace Owens Is Dangerously Misinformed about Vaccines Ever wonder why a man that builds computers, both predicted the pandemic two months before it happened, is suddenly featured on the news every day instilling fear into hearts of Americans, and is now demanding that nothing be reopened until vaccines are mandated? Matt Johnson 20 Apr 2020 · 8 min read
Declining Med School Standards in a Time of Pandemic The language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements at even the most elite schools. Steve Salerno 11 Apr 2020 · 6 min read
I've Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry. Bo Winegard 6 Mar 2020 · 7 min read
Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776 There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines. Wilfred Reilly 17 Feb 2020 · 10 min read