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Reports of Liberalism's Death—A Reply to Yoram Hazony

Our pre-liberal past was far worse than our imperfect present, and attempts to build a utopian post-liberal future have invariably ended in regression to barbarism.

Cathy Young

16 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

Patient Safety and the Medical Omerta

The sharp decline in popularity of the Catholic Church shows how difficult it is for public trust to be regained once power is abused—if the medical profession does not take its responsibility to protect patients more seriously it risks losing this trust.

Habib Rahman

15 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

The Rule of the Masses

Ortega viewed the mass man as an interloper in technically advanced, liberal democracies he had played no part in building.

G. Gavin Collins

14 Sep 2020 · 12 min read

The Failure of Fusionism

The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.

Grant Wyeth

13 Sep 2020 · 12 min read

Four Decades of Terror: Rio de Janeiro’s Never-Ending 'Drug War'

Rio’s futile, endless war will continue. Like going to the beach, or dancing samba, waging war is a way of life in Rio de Janeiro.

Damian Platt

10 Sep 2020 · 16 min read

Under the Frog: Why Tibor Fischer’s 1992 Booker-Nominated Novel May Have Found its Moment

Under the Frog was based on his Magyar parents, both of them basketball players who, in the wake of the doomed 1956 uprising against the Soviets, fled Hungary for Britain.

Robin Ashenden

9 Sep 2020 · 11 min read

At the Intersection of Art and Science: Revisiting EO Wilson’s 'Consilience'

Artists and scientists have a reductionist’s idea of one another and perceive the other as a threat.

Clint Margrave

9 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review

WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.

Alex Mackiel

8 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

The Closing of the High Street Theatres

But doomed? For some kind of answer, I spoke to Richard Hyman, one of the wise men of the retail trade, a consultant to the mighty in the store world.

John Lloyd

6 Sep 2020 · 13 min read

A Europe Divided and Unfree

Brian Stewart

3 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

Can Public Shaming be Useful?

Just as coronavirus exposes the different fault lines and weaknesses of each society it invisibly penetrates, it has functioned as something of an exclamation mark upon a half-century of social and economic liberalism.

Tanveer Ahmed

1 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

The Denial of Cancel Culture

The share of academics who lean left is between 71 and 83 percent across the first six columns, with just 4–16 percent conservative.

Eric Kaufmann

1 Sep 2020 · 14 min read

Will Corporate Social-Justice Initiatives Be More Than Just a Fad?

What’s different now is that the current strain of social-justice ideology presents itself as a totalizing creed—which means that it isn’t enough for CEOs to accede to the idea of social justice as a mere boundary check on the company’s profit-seeking activities.

David Weitzner

31 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

The Crimes of the Red Emperor

Aaron Sarin

31 Aug 2020 · 12 min read

Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police

But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.

Jonathan Kay

30 Aug 2020 · 9 min read