A Europe Divided and Unfree
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
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A collection of 1224 posts
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
COVID-19 Returns to New Zealand
The outbreak has dented the exemplary record of the New Zealand government in dealing with COVID-19.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity
She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness
Hal Niedzviecki
· 8 min read
A Lady’s Duty to Submit—Then And Now
I didn’t need Pellman and Hatch to understand that many women are still expected to submit to males, and that some males want us to believe that they are helplessly driven by sexual urges that we females must indulge.
Amy Eileen Hamm
· 11 min read
The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak
Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.
Philippe Lemoine
· 30 min read
Guilt Trip: A Son's Memoir
I had been heartless about her pain. She had absorbed my selfishness without complaint, never once calling me out about it.
Aaron Rhodes
· 9 min read
'Science Fictions' Review: Begone, Science Swindlers
Science Fictions is engaging, story-led, and well-organised. It will equip my sad young friend to articulate what went wrong with his charity’s study on literacy and, as importantly, to do the next one well.
Rosalind Arden
· 10 min read
International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science
We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.
Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz
· 8 min read