Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept As far as “master concepts” go, this one is hard to beat. One worries, however, that it is a little too neat. Patrick Lee Miller 17 Jan 2019 · 13 min read
Baizuo Lessons In the course of the semester, we would take the enormous, world-shaping corpus of American film and feed it through the leftist salami slicer: race, class, sexuality, gender, ability (notably not religion). J. Arthur Bloom 17 Jan 2019 · 16 min read
On the Value of Truth Very few of us can actually deal with too much truth, so we rarely enquire too deeply into the justifications for our beliefs. Matt McManus 16 Jan 2019 · 11 min read
Tiers of Pride and Shame Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too Coleman Hughes 16 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
Is Western Civilization Uniquely Bad? If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one. James Kierstead 15 Jan 2019 · 8 min read
"Jihadists"—A Review In the ongoing debate over terrorism, Jihadists offers a timely reminder of why theology matters. Robin Simcox 14 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers In my experience, social-media-driven activists have been driven more to hate villains than to love and honor their victims. And the most hated villain is white supremacy. Zaid Jilani 14 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
Correcting ‘Youth’s Eternal Temptation to Arrogance’—One Bedtime Story at a Time Children get a wider perspective when they’re tugged out of the here and now for a little while each day. In an enchanted hour, we can read them stories of the real and imagined past. Meghan Cox Gurdon 13 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
The Posthumous #MeToo-ing of J. D. Salinger Salinger has been posthumously relegated to the limbo of #MeToo-tainted, “problematic” cultural figures, which probably accounts for the awkward half-silence around his centenary. Cathy Young 9 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
Patreon Games Progressives and corporations when aligned form a very powerful coalition, so when they combine to restrict speech or behavior they’re likely to be successful. Uri Harris 9 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba It would be decades before the people fully understood the fraudulence of 1959’s heady idealism, but it was corrupt from the start. Jorge C. Carrasco 7 Jan 2019 · 6 min read
Malaysia's Struggle to Preserve Religious Pluralism Residing in Malaysia in the final years of the Najib administration, one could be forgiven for thinking society had somehow collectively lost its mind. Imran Said 6 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
Should We Use Genetic Technology to Boost Human Intelligence? Instead of using the label “eugenics” to discredit advocates of genetic enhancement, it would be more productive to ask what precisely we deem unacceptable and why. Julien Delhez 5 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented? Amitha Kalaichandran 4 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
The Frankfurt School and Postmodern Philosophy The claim that the work of postmodern philosophers is a continuation of Marxism by other means is quite strange, both philosophically and politically. Matt McManus 3 Jan 2019 · 9 min read
