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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.

6 Jun 2020 · 7 min read

Meet Critical Theorists' Latest Target: Critical Theorists

Wæver has dedicated his career to the idea that some of the most consequential forms of political activity and statecraft should be viewed through the lens of unspoken societal power hierarchies.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

5 Jun 2020 · 10 min read

Goodbye to Hong Kong?

Paradoxically, it was Lady Thatcher who, bowing to reality, acceded to the handover of the colony to the communist despots in 1997—with the proviso that Hong Kong would remain autonomous until 2047. Perhaps she thought that time would transform China into a wealthy and free country.

Marian L. Tupy

4 Jun 2020 · 6 min read

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

2 Jun 2020 · 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

2 Jun 2020 · 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

30 May 2020 · 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

30 May 2020 · 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

29 May 2020 · 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

29 May 2020 · 8 min read

Remembering My Friend Peter Beard

Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.

Geoffrey Clarfield

28 May 2020 · 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

27 May 2020 · 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

25 May 2020 · 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

25 May 2020 · 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

24 May 2020 · 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

23 May 2020 · 16 min read