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My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 12 min read

My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again

How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?

Will Johnson

6 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Brian Stewart

4 Dec 2020 · 5 min read

The Hustler and the Queen

NOTE: This essay contains spoilers. The surprise success of the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit has brought me a great deal of delight—I’m a longtime fan of both the novel and its author, Walter Tevis. Just this summer, I wrote an essay about all the great American

Kevin Mims

4 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

Resisting the Mourner's Veto

Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.

Christopher J. Ferguson

3 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements

But painting the world as a struggle between victims and oppressors leaves little room for a careful discussion of costs and benefits, the unforeseen consequences of intervention, and potential government failure.

Dirk Auer

3 Dec 2020 · 7 min read

Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?

Tech companies are not equipped to rule on messy and complex disputes over truth.

Samuel E. Miller

3 Dec 2020 · 7 min read

The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Science Fiction

The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now.

James D. Miller

3 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Despised—A Review

Embery offers a plan to implement his vision of a well ordered and prosperous country that values its conservative Somewhere members as much as its Anywhere cultural and economic elite.

Henry George

2 Dec 2020 · 7 min read

Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction

Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Dec 2020 · 24 min read

The Attack on Beauty

The new beauty contest has less to do with our physical vanities and more to do with our moral ones.

Marilyn Simon

1 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

The Heretical Impulse: Zamyatin and Orwell

Anglophone readers may be tempted to call Zamyatin a Russian Orwell, but the description works equally well in the reverse.

Riley Moore

1 Dec 2020 · 8 min read

Reinventing Racism—A Review

Beyond dismantling the ideas in White Fragility, Church leverages his background in economics to forward a more comprehensive framework around privilege.

Samuel Kronen

30 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media

People who don’t actively seek out books or articles inevitably lead more restricted lives because extended prose remains the most effective means of communicating complex ideas.

Joe Nutt

30 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

Will Biden Resurrect the Iran Deal?

The logic of making Iran’s nuclear program less dangerous via the JCPOA agreement while leaning on the FBI to ignore the crimes of the smugglers that made Iran’s nuclear program so dangerous remains hard to fathom.

Art Keller

29 Nov 2020 · 11 min read