A Royal Grift
In political terms, the purchasers of Trump’s NFTs are not citizens but subjects.
Julia Friedman
· 8 min read
Politics
A collection of 503 posts
The Cost of Dissent
Uninformed disagreement inhibits or destroys the very innovation and progress that diversity of opinion is meant to bring about.
Robert C. Thornett
· 9 min read
World War Z
A new book by historian Ian Garner investigates how the war in Ukraine is transforming Russia into a fascist society.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
A Party in Turmoil
Only more pragmatic leadership can renew the SNP and help repair Scotland.
John Lloyd
· 9 min read
Chicago’s Criminal Irresponsibility
Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian.
Jukka Savolainen
· 8 min read
The Fragility of the Caste-Oppression Hypothesis
Empty claims of caste discrimination in the West have damaging legal, reputational, and social consequences.
Prakash Shah
· 9 min read
Uncomfortable History
Grappling with Western misdeeds does not require us turn indigenous tribes into pious exemplars of moral instruction.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 5 min read
Military-Industrial Complexities
President Eisenhower’s warning deserves to be better understood.
George Case
· 7 min read
Media Contagion
Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.
Steve Salerno
· 14 min read
The Sanctification of the Self
The focus on the self to the exclusion of everything else is undermining the rule of law.
Megan Wildhood
· 8 min read
Orwell and Socialism
Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology.
Michael C. Anderson
· 7 min read
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
Aaron Hanna
· 25 min read
The Battle of Sainte-Soline
The events at Sainte-Soline have received less attention from the international media than the pension-reform protests, but they are arguably more consequential.
Robert Zaretsky
· 6 min read
Sexual and Gender Identity: Four Competing Paradigms
If we are going to expend so much effort on the topic of gender and sexual identity, we should be clear and rigorous in how we think about it.
William Vex
· 15 min read
Why Are Underage Central Americans in US Factories?
Debt and migration spirals have turned asylum applications into a charade for exploitation.
David Stoll
· 8 min read