Bernard Rose's Forgotten Tolstoy Trilogy
This is the least operatic, and most touching, of the trilogy.
Robin Ashenden
· 8 min read
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From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China
The Indian border is only one of the many fronts on which China has been taking advantage of the worldwide economic downturn and political paralysis caused by COVID-19 to move aggressively—an ironic result given the source of the disease.
Cleo Paskal
· 8 min read
Exploring 'Other Ways of Knowing': The New Religious Threat to Science Education
In its most elaborate form, EDI subjects science to the same treatment as has already been meted out to the Western literary canon: a relentless deconstruction whereby each axiom, value, and commitment is presented as infected by cultural imperialism.
Lenny Pier Ramos
· 12 min read
The Purity Paradox: How Tolerance and Intolerance Increase at the Same Time
By relentlessly expanding the concept of intolerance, prevalence-induced concept change ensures none of us can ever be good enough—if we pass one test of tolerance, we are sure to fail the next.
Peter Hughes
· 7 min read
How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists
The novelists, librarians, and booksellers circling the wagons to shut women up have been insisting for years that they are motivated by nothing but love and tolerance.
Erin Perse
· 7 min read
Reassessing the Guidance on Face Masks
Overly broad masking requirements are at best useless, and possibly harmful, since they can cause confusion and prompt at least some to rebel against masking if the practice is too onerous or impractical.
Dagfinn Reiersøl
· 7 min read
Seattle’s Summer of Love
Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
From South American Anthropology to Gender-Crit Cancel Culture: My Strange Feminist Journey
Anthropology taught me how to spot this instinct. Gender-critical feminists taught me how to stand up to it.
Kathleen Lowrey
· 13 min read
The Libertarian History of Science Fiction
The connection between SF and liberty is not simply an accidental byproduct of the colorful history of SF publishing, but a necessary one tied to certain fundamentals of the genre.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 15 min read
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism—A Review
Feudal societies were hierarchical, with clearly-defined roles and responsibilities for everyone. The knights fought for all, the priests prayed for all, and the peasants worked for all.
Adam Wakeling
· 11 min read
Is State Protection a Threat to Liberal Democracy?
Protection at the cost of a planned economy and a surveillance state would be no protection at all.
Ross Stitt
· 12 min read
For Journalists, The New York Times' Social-Justice Meltdown Is a Sign of Things to Come
If you want to get a glimpse into the future of journalism—not to mention poetry, music, fiction, and all the rest—these tempests offer a good taste of what’s to come.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class—A Review
Charles Murray believes in the values of Enlightenment: science and knowledge, truth and progress.
Dario Maestripieri
· 8 min read
The Battle for Russian Journalism
Opinion, he says, is not the same as activism and purely objective journalism does not exist.
Alexandra Vladimirova and John Lloyd
· 12 min read
As America Simmers, Corporate America Racks Up the Retweets
This isn’t virtue signalling because a corporation is a legal fiction—and so it doesn’t have virtue to signal.
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 7 min read