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 · 15 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 · 11 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 · 6 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 · 6 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 · 12 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 · 24 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 · 6 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 · 25 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 · 10 min read