The Genocidal Imagination
Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.
Pascal Bruckner
· 21 min read
Long Read
A collection of 190 posts
Introducing Justapedia
A new alternative to Wikipedia has arrived. Can it succeed where others have failed?
Shuichi Tezuka
· 24 min read
Kissinger and Cambodia
Attempts to hold US policy solely responsible for the rise of the Khmer Rouge are historically inept.
Lachlan Peters
· 20 min read
“There’s Nothing Mystical About the Idea that Ideas Change History”
An interview with Steven Pinker.
Matt Johnson
· 27 min read
The Return of the Progressive Atrocity
It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.
Susie Linfield
· 21 min read
Who Should Fund Science?
The notion that governments should fund science is built on falsehoods.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 17 min read
Man Out of Time
A look back at the career of Avery Corman, who found popular success with ‘Kramer versus Kramer’ before running afoul of feminism.
Kevin Mims
· 19 min read
Howard Men
Prince Jones, Carlton Jones, and the evasions of Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Adam Gussow
· 58 min read
Sculpture and Story
Narrative art has been deeply unfashionable for about a century. But aren’t art and stories inextricable?
Aidan Harte
· 20 min read
Dogmatism, Data, and Public Health
A look back on the 2003 BMJ controversy over passive smoking and mortality.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 20 min read
Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Humanity and the Final Frontier.
Joseph Grosso
· 20 min read
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited
Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
Samuel Kronen
· 17 min read
The Lab-Leak Illusion
The laboratory accident hypothesis of COVID-19’s origins is a bust, but the popular consensus is unwilling to accept it.
Jamie Palmer
· 53 min read
Faith Goes to Switzerland
When should we allow a person to hasten her own death?
Brent M. Kious
· 25 min read
A Life in the Fray
A new memoir by Martin Peretz, the former owner and editor-in-chief of The New Republic, provides a timely reminder of what American journalism has lost.
Jeffrey Herf
· 22 min read