Why Have So Many American Conservatives Embraced COVID-19 Pseudoscience? But what I’m describing here isn’t evidence-driven debate: It’s angry, ideologically driven luddite mysticism masquerading as hard-headed conservative skepticism. Nidra Poller 23 Jul 2020 · 7 min read
Is Woke Capitalism Profitable? When done correctly, woke capitalism functions as a form of costless virtue signalling. Vincent Harinam 21 Jul 2020 · 14 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help' The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article. Nick Comilla 20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism. Bradley Campbell 20 Jul 2020 · 9 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories' The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice. Jonathan Church 20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
In Canada's Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno's’ Rommelmann also was eager to move to a city with a vibrant national media presence. Jonathan Kay 17 Jul 2020 · 9 min read
As Statues Fall, What's the Best Way to Evaluate History's Heroes? One possibility is that morality is dependent on local circumstances and facts about social order and organization. Steven D. Hales 16 Jul 2020 · 7 min read
The Hagia Sophia Should Remain a Beacon to All The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history. Lars Brownworth 15 Jul 2020 · 9 min read
Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture The Harper’s letter itself bent over backwards to mollify prospective critics, so it’s hardly surprising that the vast majority of signatories felt comfortable adding their names. Noah Carl 14 Jul 2020 · 6 min read
In Defence of the Humanities Scholars in the humanities are the bearers of the memory of civilisation, and their role in our society is indispensable. Elena Shalneva 14 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
The Passing of the Second Imperial Age The US’s hegemonic period, now shrinking, often looked like empire, especially the British version, which it mostly replaced. John Lloyd 13 Jul 2020 · 13 min read
In Defense of ‘Reactionary Liberalism’—A Reply to Osita Nwanevu Nwanevu is predictably coy about affirmative action, the most explicit form of institutional racism in the United States. Bo Winegard 13 Jul 2020 · 10 min read
Why I Signed the Harper's Letter America’s racial inequities, of which police brutality is only a minor part, must end. Roya Hakakian 11 Jul 2020 · 4 min read
It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen Dozens of scholars threatened to resign from the college if my appointment were allowed to stand. Margaret Wente 9 Jul 2020 · 11 min read
