Is Woke Capitalism Profitable?
When done correctly, woke capitalism functions as a form of costless virtue signalling.
Vincent Harinam
· 14 min read
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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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
The Defenestration of Bari Weiss
Brian Stewart
· 5 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
· 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
· 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 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
· 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Liberal Democracies Should Open Their Doors to Hongkongers
Accepting Hongkongers into our countries would be good for us.
Owen Lewis
· 7 min read