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A Reasoned Judgment and a Reputation in Ruins

Depp has found that using the law to defend your reputation is a very expensive way of shattering it.

Matthew Scott

7 Nov 2020 · 10 min read

Without and Within, a Fin-de-Siècle Moment

If Donald Trump had won, the Left would have burned down the cities. If Joe Biden had won decisively and flipped the Senate, conservatives would have loaded the guns into their pickup trucks and laid siege.

Stephen Elliott

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear

We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.

Sky Gilbert

6 Nov 2020 · 8 min read

For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America's Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse

Common themes in the emerging constellation of radical groups include apocalyptic beliefs, a “utopian” political agenda, martyr narratives, and a cell-based organizational structure.

Mike Gonzalez

3 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

The Search for a Politics of Community

What’s now being sought is a system in which power is exercised by representatives of those who constitute a majority.

John Lloyd

3 Nov 2020 · 13 min read

The Failing Business Model of American Universities

Troubling data on annual borrowing from the College Board show the types of loans taken.

Eric Jansen

3 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

Sex Differences in Occupational Attainment are Here to Stay

The sex difference here is found in hunter-gatherer, pastoral, and agricultural societies, as well as in early empires, developing nations, and the modern world.

David C. Geary

2 Nov 2020 · 16 min read

‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards

There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story.

Stephen Elliott

2 Nov 2020 · 20 min read

Jack Turban’s Dangerous Campaign to Smear Ethical Psychotherapy as Anti-Trans ‘Conversion Therapy’

A number of additional data irregularities in the USTS raise further questions about the quality of the data.

Roberto D’Angelo, Ema Syrulnik, Sasha Ayad, Lisa Marchiano, Dianna Theadora Kenny, and Patrick Clarke / Lisa Marchiano / Sasha Ayad

1 Nov 2020 · 19 min read

I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn

The Sexual Health Certificate Program is a prestigious University of Michigan program conducted in affiliation with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT).

Tim Courtois

31 Oct 2020 · 17 min read

How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist

In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.

Zaid Jilani

30 Oct 2020 · 9 min read

Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture

In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”

Noah Carl

30 Oct 2020 · 9 min read

Against an Unequivocally Bad Idea

Universal Basic Income, or “UBI,” is a proposal to give every American a periodic check from the government.

Nick Buffie

30 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

The Evolutionary History of Man's Best Friend Revealed

Dogs are the only domestic species who have been with us since the Pleistocene, which ended 11,500 years ago.

Razib Khan

29 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

What We Owe to ‘The Boys in the Band’—and Other Classics of Gay Film

I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.

Allan Stratton

28 Oct 2020 · 15 min read