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
· 12 min read
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The Contradiction That Broke the Modern Right
The parties that have previously sold themselves as staunch defenders of freedom are now the parties most susceptible to authoritarianism.
Grant Wyeth
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read
The WEIRDest People in the World—A Review
WEIRD individuals are psychologically peculiar in a number of ways.
Alex Mackiel
· 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
· 13 min read
A Europe Divided and Unfree
Brian Stewart
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
The Crimes of the Red Emperor
Aaron Sarin
· 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
· 9 min read
The Philosophy of Pansexualism
If sexual attraction to older people is relatively uncommon, what about attraction to those who do not match one’s sexual orientation?
Raja Halwani
· 15 min read
The Fall of Beirut
Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.
Art Keller
· 11 min read