How a Feminist Prophet Became an Apostate—An Interview with Dr Phyllis Chesler
Dr Phyllis Chesler has never been afraid to be unpopular.
Louise Perry
· 11 min read
Books
A collection of 203 posts
Pop Fiction's Rich History of #MeToo Drama
Lately, the very serious people who write about TV and film and books for publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times have been tripping over themselves to heap praise on highbrow novelists, filmmakers, and screenwriters who have used their platforms to tackle issues such as rape
Kevin Mims
· 12 min read
Conformity: The Power of Social Influences—A Review
We are natural conformers because, more often than not, it keeps us alive and in good standing with our peers.
Vincent Harinam
· 9 min read
'The Guarded Gate' Review: Elites and Their Eugenics Projects
The sordid and shameful history of eugenics in the U.S. should be better known, as should the role of another prominent American institution that was central to the development of eugenics ideology.
Jack B. Nimble
· 15 min read
On Its 70th Anniversary, Nineteen Eighty-Four Still Feels Important and Inspiring
Nineteen-Eighty Four, whose first publication took place 70 years ago today, is itself a sort of anti-novel, one that undermines its own dramatic tension in a way that might now be described as postmodern.
Jonathan Kay
· 15 min read
Goodbye, Herman Wouk
On May 17th, American novelist Herman Wouk died, just ten days before he was due to turn 104. If Ernest Hemingway’s life and career had been as long as those of Herman Wouk, he’d have been alive as recently as 2003 and he’d have published a book
Kevin Mims
· 8 min read
The Case for Nabokov
An even moderately careful reading of Lolita should make it quite clear that it’s anything but a “celebration” of child rape.
Cathy Young
· 13 min read
Policing the Creative Imagination
If sensitivity readers become a publishing institution, they will only incentivize more cautious, conservative, and ideologically homogenous books.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
The Impassable Road to Redemption
Not only is no-one allowed to change for the better anymore, no one is even allowed to be understood, much less forgiven.
Clint Margrave
· 9 min read
Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars
While Hanson is good in setting out the causes of Trump’s victory, he falls short when it comes to making recommendations for the future.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times
Faludy’s greatest weapon—what really allows him to swat away the mosquitoes of passing ideologies—is his delight in sensual pleasures.
Robin Ashenden
· 6 min read
Politics and the Practice of Warm-Heartedness
Brooks blames America’s bitter politics on the “outrage industrial complex”: the media, politicians and commentators who entice voters, attract television viewers, and sell books and event tickets premised on hatred of the other side.
Matthew Lesh
· 7 min read
Michel Houellebecq: Prophet or Troll?
Houellebecq depicts a Europe where French culture is a bad joke.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 14 min read
Young Adult Fiction's Online Commissars
No Young Adult fiction writer is in danger of being shot, starved, or sent to work in the mines for political transgressions.
Cathy Young
· 9 min read
The Unconstrained Vision of David Deutsch
Sowell distinguishes between the unconstrained vision and the constrained vision.
Clovis Roussy
· 11 min read