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
· 18 min read
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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
· 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
· 7 min read
Losing the Mandate of Heaven
Aaron Sarin
· 8 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
Cosmic Justice and the Expectation Gap
The issues of our time demand a more serious approach.
Samuel Kronen
· 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
· 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 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
· 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
· 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
· 14 min read
The Misguided Moral Panic About Racism in British Universities
The scope of individual autonomy is rapidly being eroded by measures designed to engineer an inclusive society.
Wanjiru Njoya and Doug Stokes
· 19 min read