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The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was

The recent hyper-focus on insects can be traced back to a 2017 study conducted by an obscure German entomological society, which claimed that flying insects in German nature reserves had decreased by 76 percent over just 26 years.

Jon Entine

25 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

The Philologist, the Iraqi Girl, and Me

The comrades worked together, ate together, read together, showered together, used the latrine together, sang together to the sound of accordions late into the night.

Edward Grossman

23 Jul 2021 · 18 min read

The Ear Whisperers

Machiavelli’s clear preference was for an advisor to be principled, believing in his advice and stating it clearly, but not importunate.

John Lloyd

23 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

The Rise of Post-Liberal Man

This kind of regime-analysis disappeared with the rise of classical liberalism, which supplied an altogether different language of politics.

Mathis Bitton

22 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

The Faith of Systemic Racism

The radicals, always livid, always demanding more, insist that all this is window dressing. A sham.

Peter Savodnik

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Silicon Valley’s Cynical Treatment of Asian Engineers

Asian Americans have become an unfun topic in Silicon Valley corporate life. Certainly, they embarrass the diversity-obsessed gurus at Google and Facebook.

Kenny Xu

21 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Interview with Slavenka Drakulić—the East-West Doyenne of the 1990s

Living under a totalitarian regime one knows censorship in and out. One can smell it from far away and I smell it in this terror of political correctness—or, if we turn it around, in the danger of expressing different, unpopular views.

Robin Ashenden

20 Jul 2021 · 13 min read

Should Critical Race Theory Be Banned in Public Schools?—a Conversation with Christopher F. Rufo

They’re embarking on an experiment that I think will ultimately fail and will ultimately harm children, but it’s an experiment that they’re entitled to embark on.

Jonathan Kay and Christopher F. Rufo

20 Jul 2021 · 25 min read

The Accomplishments of Black Conservative Thought

As a black conservative man, I will add one final note. None of the points made in this essay—about the over-hyping of victimhood in modern America or the cultural issues in working-class black and white communities—is meant to imply that racism does not exist.

Wilfred Reilly

19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

A Toast to Randolph Bourne

There is much we can learn from Bourne, not only from his joie-de-vivre, his ideas about cultural diversity and disability, but perhaps most of all, from his toughness, his willingness to criticize associates.

Russell Jacoby

19 Jul 2021 · 7 min read

Historical Racism Is Not the Singular Cause of Racial Disparity

The popular vision of race in America seems to be incapable of breaking the gridlock that places the fate of black Americans in the hands of white society and then condemns that society to the wasteland of history.

Samuel Kronen

17 Jul 2021 · 26 min read

Why Violence and Looting Have Exploded Across South Africa

The poor and unemployed have demonstrated that their patience is limited and that they are a keg of dynamite waiting to go off.

R W Johnson

16 Jul 2021 · 11 min read

Surplus to Society

Workers are scarce and wages are rising. “The relationship between American businesses and their employees,” reports the New York Times, “is undergoing a profound shift: for the first time in a generation, workers are gaining the upper hand.” In the Guardian, John Harris writes that, “As consumer demand surges, hospitality

John Lloyd

14 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

The Language of Totalitarian Dehumanization

A week before the massive protests erupted in Cuba, I was celebrating Fourth of July at a friend’s house in Oakland, California, and listening to her tell me stories about her adventures there. She is a Jewish red diaper baby and today seems to identify as some sort of

Clifton Ross

14 Jul 2021 · 6 min read

The Black Panthers march in New York City in protest of the trial of co-founder Huey P. Newton.

The Strange Rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party

Isn’t it a little late for the rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? After all, the organization that first caught the public’s attention in 1969 was already in its death throes by the early 1970s, beset by internal splits, criminal prosecutions, and violent faction-fighting. Yet, five decades

Ronald Radosh

13 Jul 2021 · 18 min read