Remembering My Friend Peter Beard
Peter is no longer here to tell us the truth of the matter.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 8 min read
Top Stories
A collection of 1224 posts
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
Death of an Old-Fashioned Clown: An Obituary of Fred Willard
Fred Willard was a kind of Holy Fool even among fools.
Simon Evans
· 7 min read
As Common Sense Returns to the Gender Debate, Radicals Set Upon Their Own Allies
The entire argument was about whether one particular trans ally had become too famous at the expense of more worthy and authentic competitors.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read
Drop Anchor: How COVID-19 Will Kill the Cruise Industry
Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence.
Barbara Kay
· 6 min read
Capitalism or the Climate?
Technological knowledge, fueled by capital, has allowed us to do many things categorically unlike the achievements of other species as far as we know.
Saul Zimet
· 14 min read
Cold War Now or Hot War Later
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
Return to ‘The Unheavenly City’
“This book will probably strike many readers as the work of an ill-tempered and mean-spirited fellow,” Banfield explained, “but facts are facts, however, unpleasant, and they have to be faced unblinkingly by anyone who really wants to improve matters in the cities.”
Craig Trainor
· 12 min read
Towards a Better Urbanism
The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.
Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky
· 12 min read