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Lebanon's Malignant State

Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion.

Brian Stewart

12 Aug 2020 · 5 min read

The Russia Report

It is “widely recognised,” says the report, “that Russian intelligence and business are completely intertwined".

John Lloyd

12 Aug 2020 · 13 min read

Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity

However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.

Lyell Asher

12 Aug 2020 · 7 min read

Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias

Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.

Joel Kotkin

11 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom

Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.

Sergiu Klainerman

10 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

George Orwell and the Struggle against Inevitable Bias

Orwell’s most personally searing experience, though, had come in Barcelona in 1937.

Adam Wakeling

8 Aug 2020 · 11 min read

Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won't Help Anyone

Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.

Joshua Hunter

8 Aug 2020 · 6 min read

At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich

Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.

Cathy Young

7 Aug 2020 · 16 min read

Lord Over All: Alexander the Great's Conquered World of Priests and Pagans

The poverty of Macedon made incense rarer than in Greece or the Near East, and it also made offerings rarer.

F.S. Naiden

5 Aug 2020 · 14 min read

Cancel Culture and the Republican Concept of Liberty

A culture that pressures institutions to sanction speakers based on unwelcome ideas may not always or even rarely end in a direct censorship of speech.

Chang Che

5 Aug 2020 · 7 min read

At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate

The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.

Julian Vigo

5 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes

Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.

Zaid Jilani

3 Aug 2020 · 5 min read

What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.

Cameron Harwick

3 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

My Life Pouring Concrete

During my first four years of occasional construction work, from 2014 to 2018, almost 5,000 workers in this field died on the job in the United States.

Michael Humeniuk

2 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

The Futility of the Conservative War on Pornography

Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.

Christopher J. Ferguson

1 Aug 2020 · 7 min read