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
· 11 min read
Top Stories
A collection of 1267 posts
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
· 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
· 8 min read
"Jihadists"—A Review
In the ongoing debate over terrorism, Jihadists offers a timely reminder of why theology matters.
Robin Simcox
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 min read
"Stop Assuming that Everything You Feel or Think Is Right"—An Interview with Robert Greene
Don’t assume that the reason that you feel something, and that it’s right just because you feel it.
Ryan Holiday
· 18 min read
The Avant-Garde's Slide into Irrelevance
The foundations of the avant-garde were built upon the opposition of true and fake art.
Michael J. Pearce
· 10 min read