Goodbye to Hong Kong?
For classical liberals, Hong Kong had been a beacon of hope for half a century.
Marian L. Tupy
· 6 min read
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A collection of 1201 posts
Pandemics and Pandemonium
Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts.
Joel Kotkin
· 12 min read
A Rainy Day in New York—A Review
This is the territory with which Allen feels most familiar and confident—a spare, crisp, and yet intricately plotted tale that juggles characters and situations with sensitivity and bathos.
David Evanier
· 10 min read
America's Black Communities Are Suffering. Violent Protests Will Make the Suffering Worse
All in all, the evidence suggests that violent protests and rioting empower right-wing political forces, provide an opportunity for gangs to enrich themselves and exploit destabilized local populations, impoverish property owners, and harm long-term economic fortunes.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read
Fighting COVID-19: Australia’s (Largely Untold) Success Story
Australians know that other countries are still suffering under lockdown, and that even within Australia, some regions are still suffering terribly.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Moving Away from Meat Means Welcoming the New 'Flexitarians'
Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.
Ari David Blaff
· 6 min read
How Innovation Works—A Review
Ridley presents an inspiring view of history, because we are not merely the passive recipients of thousands of years of innovations. We can contribute to this endless chain of progress, if we so choose.
Logan Chipkin
· 8 min read
Remembering My Friend Peter Beard
Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 8 min read
A Bolt in the Dark
The chaos of any moment, especially of a moment that requires one to spend a great deal of time alone, is an opportunity to engage with this deliberative way of living.
Erik Sheagren
· 10 min read
Hypocrisy, Cynicism and Tara Reade
This does not exonerate those feminists who refused to stand with Tara Reade from the start—a cynical, hypocritical move if ever there was one.
Abigail Shrier
· 8 min read
Ronan Farrow’s Botched Journalism is Troubling. The Response to It Has Been Worse
The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Do We Really Want a New Cold War?
Politicians and the commentariat keep shouting “China is not our friend!” But friendship is a good thing, the most rewarding of all human relationships.
James Hankins
· 6 min read
The Fight over Alternative Education
Bartholet’s polemic is by no means simply directed at homeschooling all by itself. It is part of a larger—and relatively recent—specific animus among progressive academics and politicians against a range of alternatives to conventional public schooling
Charlotte Allen
· 16 min read
American Women of Different Racial Backgrounds Are Marrying Less—Why?
There has been a steady decline in US marriage rates, from 65.9 percent of adult women in 1960 to 51.1 percent in 2018.
Robert Cherry
· 8 min read
Dumbing Fascism Down, Then And Now
Stalin publicly misused the term so often, in fact, that Princeton history professor Stephen Kotkin has suggested he lacked a fundamental understanding of the word’s meaning.
Bradford H.B.
· 8 min read