Making Homer and Vergil Optional at Oxford Won't 'Diversify' Classics Most of us in Classics presumably read some Homer and/or Vergil at some point during our undergraduate careers, at least in translation, but there is no mandate that we do so. Solveig Lucia Gold 24 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
On the Study of Great Books Great books require intelligence and judgment, and the exploration of sometimes quite fundamental disagreement, from the outset. Andrew Gleeson 23 Feb 2020 · 18 min read
Don't Blame Neoliberalism for 'Postmodern Conservatism' The tides of history ebb and flow, along with doctrines such as neoliberalism, modernism, postmodernism, and whatever it is that follows postmodernism. Jonathan Church 23 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
How Anonymous, Unproven Accusations Turned Mike Tunison's Career Into MeToo Road Kill The truth is that we don’t actually know what ultimately will become of men such as Tunison. Libby Emmons 23 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
Lee Jussim Is Right to Be Skeptical about 'Stereotype Threat' Di Angelo’s writing about stereotype threat, white fragility, structural oppression and so on, on the other hand, is more like dogma than scientific theory. Jonathan Church 22 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
Protecting Our Cultural Commons from Opportunism The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior. David C. Rose 22 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
The British Conservative Party Should Stop Cancelling Conservatives The sad truth is that, faced with a few fake media accusations, the Tories panicked. They made no effort to check the facts. Yoram Hazony / Christopher DeMuth 19 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
Putin at the World Holocaust Forum The indecency of this spectacle was compounded by the fact that Putin was allowed to posture as the savior of Kremlin hostage Naama Issachar, whom he pardoned after his trip. Cathy Young 15 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
Cosmic Justice and the Expectation Gap The issues of our time demand a more serious approach. Samuel Kronen 14 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
Yale against Western Art Once word got out that this year would be the curtain call for the two introductory Western art courses, students stampeded to enroll. Heather Mac Donald 13 Feb 2020 · 10 min read
My Former Life as a Radical They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism. Gerfried Ambrosch 11 Feb 2020 · 11 min read
Holbrooke and the 68ers Our Man tells a tidier story than The Unwinding because it focusses on one man, and the analogy between Holbrooke and the country he served holds up remarkably well throughout the book. Matt Johnson 11 Feb 2020 · 28 min read
The Battle to Feed All of Humanity Is Over. Humanity Has Won I suspect that with increased wealth and access to information, Africans, like most people, will eventually find a happy medium between food consumption and healthy living. Marian L. Tupy 11 Feb 2020 · 5 min read
Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account. RJ Smith 10 Feb 2020 · 14 min read
