What Is #DisruptTexts?
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
Lona Manning
· 9 min read
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Against Cultural Protectionism
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
Leo Nicolletto
· 13 min read
A Defense of Offensive Jokes
Some jokes, even in the joking relationship, are beyond the pale, and there should be some margin left for pushback against jokes that do actually go over the line. But offensive humour, in private relationships, has a useful purpose and should not be thrown out entirely.
Bill Peel
· 11 min read
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review
Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense.
Charlotte Allen
· 20 min read
Black and White in the Classroom
I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.
Lola Jean Benjamin
· 4 min read
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
· 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
· 11 min read
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 23 min read