How Ed Schools Became a Menace to Higher Education
To anyone acquainted with the history and quality of American ed schools, this should come as no surprise.
Lyell Asher
· 23 min read
Long Read
A collection of 190 posts
The Death of a Dreamer
When a public figure makes a mistake there seems to be a much stronger, more intense and quicker backlash.
Will Storr
· 16 min read
Confessions of a ‘Soulless Troglodyte’: How My Brooklyn Literary Friendships Fell Apart in the Age of Trump
For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didn’t ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts.
Lester Berg
· 18 min read
Not All Dead White Men—A Review
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 23 min read
The New Patriarchy: How Trans Radicalism Hurts Women, Children—and Trans People Themselves
Gender dysphoria was viewed as a rare and distressing condition that could be alleviated by accommodating sufferers as legal exceptions to the rules of biology.
Helen Joyce
· 32 min read
My Misspent Years of Conspiracism
Given what we know about the world, what would we expect to find in the wake of the assassination had Oswald acted alone?
Jamie Palmer
· 28 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read
The Public Humiliation Diet
In today’s topsy-turvy world, virtue signaling trumps being virtuous.
Toby Young
· 23 min read
I Was a Female Incel
Women have acquired unprecedented sexual, economic, and political freedom in the span of a few short generations.
Hayley Morrison
· 24 min read
What Is the Tribe of the Anti-Tribalists?
Considering some of the sobering political implications of tribalism might do more to loosen its grip on the tribalists than would more anti-tribalist rebuttals.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 25 min read
Devastation and Denial: Cambodia and the Academic Left
Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
Matthew Blackwell
· 19 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
At this Portland Bakery, White Guilt Poisons the Batter
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Andy Ngo
· 15 min read
Behind the Mask: Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
Elham Manea: From Fundamentalism to Reform
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
Andy Ngo
· 11 min read