Fulton and the Case Against Normalcy
A long-ago speech by a foreign dignitary may hold the key to recovering some lost wisdom about how America came into this role in the first place.
Brian Stewart
· 11 min read
Top Stories
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Mailer and the Second Wavers
“The Prisoner of Sex”—in both magazine and book form—was largely a baroque riposte to Kate Millett’s bestselling feminist polemic Sexual Politics.
Charlotte Allen
· 31 min read
Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online?
It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.
Ray Scott Percival
· 11 min read
Support for Scottish Independence Wanes as the SNP Is Engulfed in Scandal
Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists have been far more successful at dragging the country into a culture war than improving the everyday life of ordinary Scots.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 7 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
Clifton Ross
· 10 min read
The Enduring Relevance of Czesław Miłosz’s ‘The Captive Mind’
It is into such pathologies that The Captive Mind delves, and why it has such application to our time.
Robin Ashenden
· 11 min read
Raising Beef Cattle
It’s hard to imagine a more inaccurate description of the peace and contentment so apparent in this pastoral scene.
Tom Blanton
· 16 min read
We Can Revisit (And Even Replace) the Classic Books We Teach Children—Without Cancelling Them
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
Before 'Groundhog Day': The Time-Loop Novel that Started It All
On March 4th, the Ringer, a website that covers pop culture, featured an article entitled “We’re in a Time Loop of Time-Loop Movies.” Similar articles have appeared in many other pop-culture venues of late. Suddenly, time-loop stories seem to be everywhere. This month Hulu began streaming director Joe Carnahan’
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres
The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.
Sean Welsh
· 10 min read
Britain's Academic Free Speech Bill
Interference by external actors comprises any attempt by those outside the academy to encroach upon the free speech rights of university members.
Noah Carl
· 13 min read
Science Goes Rogue
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 8 min read
Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 21 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read