The Souls of Yellow Folk — A Review
Collectively, the essays paint a fascinating and disturbing picture of pre-dystopian anomie and dissolution.
Daniel Oppenheimer
· 8 min read
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An Israeli Agent on Campus
The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.
Ari David Blaff
· 12 min read
Another Dream Deferred
Michael Shermer
· 6 min read
A World Without Animal Farming
Consumption decreases when people abandon animal products for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic converts might become moral converts later.
Spencer Case
· 8 min read
Redefining Sexual Harassment
Sexist comments and “ambient harassment” are, by their very nature, more ambiguous than a boss’s groping or demands for sexual favours.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read
How #MeToo Helped Create a Script for False Accusers
Web sites such as Project Unbreakable, notwithstanding the good intentions behind their creation, can serve as a resource kit for dishonest complainants.
Diana Davison
· 10 min read
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 14 min read
Germaine Greer's On Rape — A Review
As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.
Matthew Scott
· 11 min read
Reasons to Be Fearful
Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down.
Russell Blackford
· 5 min read
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
As a Toronto Mob Brays — David Frum and Steve Bannon on Populism's Soul
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
A Mania for All Seasons — The Continuing Importance of The Devils of Loudun
Huxley’s dissection of a seventeenth century social pandemonium, whipped up in an era of shifting sexual mores, is a timeless indictment of the latent monstrousness within all human beings.
Samuel McGee-Hall
· 11 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
An Imaginary Racism — Islamophobia and Guilt: A Review
The explosion in identity politics that has led to the automatic use of “white” as an ethnic insult in condemnations such as “white privilege” and “white, straight men” has made race as defining a factor in left-wing politics as it is in extreme right-wing politics.
Nick Cohen
· 10 min read
Nazis — A Modern Field Guide
In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read