Milan Kundera: The Nobel Prize for Literature Winner We Never Had Few writers in our time were more committed to the novel or had more idealism about the heights the form could scale. Robin Ashenden 11 Jul 2023 · 12 min read
The Universal Structure of Storytelling Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers. Jonathan Gottschall 29 Nov 2021 · 11 min read
The Enemy of My Enemy But let’s remain clear in our minds what they really stand for, because sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out, in the long run, to be just another enemy. Robert Tracinski 22 Nov 2021 · 8 min read
The Vanishing of Peng Shuai Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual. Aaron Sarin 20 Nov 2021 · 6 min read
Flying Cars: What, How, When, and Why? Even though electric and self-driving cars have yet to saturate the market, dozens of companies are at various stages of launching flying cars in a variety of models. Randall Mayes 18 Nov 2021 · 9 min read
Equity Concerns Lead to a Mass-Firing of Museum Volunteers The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges. Robert Cherry 15 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Weekly Roundup In these polarised times, it is easy to become demoralised when outrage and falsehood spread faster, and prove more profitable than measured analysis and objective fact-finding. Claire Lehmann 2 Oct 2021 · 5 min read
My Life as a Ghostwriter If you pick the right projects, on the other hand, ghostwriting can be highly lucrative, especially as compared to the low payouts available to mid-list authors publishing non-fiction books under their own name. Jonathan Kay 26 Sep 2021 · 11 min read
Who Will Save Us From Racist AI? The researchers analyzed multiple databases and the findings were striking—the ML models were able to predict self-reported race (classified as Asian, black, and white) with astonishing precision. Zachary Robert Caverley 15 Aug 2021 · 8 min read
Vexed by the Un-Vaxxed Civil society is based on the fundamental premise that we give up certain liberties to secure tranquility, defense, welfare, and greater liberty, such as the freedom from fatal diseases. Michael Shermer 14 Aug 2021 · 13 min read
20 Hungarian Lessons the West Is Still Missing Hungarian politics is usually much less ideological than you think. Erik D'Amato 13 Aug 2021 · 11 min read
Necessity Is the Mother of Invention, and Has Been for Over 3,500 Years And that is an ancient cultural surprise worth celebrating. Far more than imaginary Gods, Ravens, and Spirits. Lawrence M. Krauss 13 Aug 2021 · 4 min read
Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole—A Review In the 1980s, when political correctness was slowly brewing in parts of academia, Isaac Asimov claimed democracy was under attack. Göran Adamson 11 Aug 2021 · 6 min read