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
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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
Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World
The Congo has a way of putting first-world prophecies of climate apocalypse into perspective.
Michael Shellenberger
· 37 min read
Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation
The New Yorker story remains an albatross around my neck.
Peter Cohen
· 27 min read
Free Speech is a Value, not a Right
Free speech is subordinate to the private property rights of whatever resources are needed to speak in the first place.
Logan Chipkin
· 7 min read
To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’
In the case of COVID-19, we know that diabetes, hypertension, and obesity all are significant comorbidities.
Amr F. Hamour
· 5 min read
Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem
There are fewer tenured black physicists at universities and laboratories because there are fewer black PhD physicists.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 11 min read
Affirmative Action in a Multiethnic Nation
India’s reticular caste system poses unique problems. Legions of ethnic groups seek categorization as “backwards classes.”
Joshua Hunter
· 7 min read
Local Farming Can't Save the Planet
Globalization has made our food ridiculously cheap compared to previous eras. But perhaps that’s part of the problem.
Hidde Boersma and Maarten Boudry
· 9 min read
On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry
It is not unreasonable to consider avoiding research that risks creating unmanageable divisions.
Peter Toshev
· 6 min read
Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
Javier Arcos Hódar
· 15 min read
The Room Where It Happened—A Review
Money is a consistently recurring theme. Trump told Bolton at one point that other presidents had not talked about money, but that he liked to do so.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read