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My Own Private Chateau—Pauline Réage's 'Story of O' Revisited

Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.

Marilyn Simon

18 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

Not All Identities Are Created Equal

The revival of racial identity to tackle social injustice reawakens an ancient beast.

Razib Khan

17 Oct 2020 · 11 min read

Who Speaks for Black Lives Matter? The Answer Can Be Complicated

As one might imagine, it generally is opposed by many Black Lives Matter supporters, as they disagree with any implied parallel between racist treatment of blacks and the occupational hazards of police work.

Steven Volynets

16 Oct 2020 · 13 min read

Slack Wars: Corporate America’s Woke Insurgency

Labor leaders no longer even pretend they can staunch the layoffs, and so their focus increasingly has turned to questions of editorial direction and ideology, over which they still believe they can exert leverage through the back door of social media.

Quillette

16 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

The Moral Panic over 'Sexualisation'

I regularly found myself on national TV and radio, opposing the idea that the state should act to stop teenagers accessing sexual material.

Jerry Barnett

16 Oct 2020 · 12 min read

My Brief Spell as an Activist

I was on fire, and at the same time, I was fragile.

Lucy Kross Wallace

14 Oct 2020 · 14 min read

The Lawrence Mead Affair

If someone puts forward a controversial theory, others should have the chance to criticise it.

Noah Carl

13 Oct 2020 · 6 min read

Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (war, famine, pestilence, and death) have not completely disappeared—that would be a miracle, not progress. But the world is incomparably richer than it was just two centuries ago.

Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley

13 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

The End of the Islamic Republic of Iran?

The regime is a victim of its own fanaticism, corruption, and incompetence.

Shay Khatiri

11 Oct 2020 · 7 min read

Is China the Governance of the Future?

Jacques is one of the most enthusiastic boosters of China in the West, and his book aims to show that an increasingly dynamic China will soon lay a claim to global hegemony.

John Lloyd

10 Oct 2020 · 15 min read

How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights

Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.

John Young

9 Oct 2020 · 9 min read

For Some Adjunct Professors, It's Speak Your Mind versus Keep Your Job

Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor

8 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

George Orwell, Henry Miller, and the 'Dirty-Handkerchief Side of Life'

Like Miller, Orwell didn’t just focus on the “dirty-handkerchief side of life”—he repeatedly confessed to the dirty-handkerchief side of his own personality.