How Real Is Systemic Racism Today?
The beauty of “systemic racism” is its air of permanence.
John Staddon
· 17 min read
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The White Privilege of Being Black
The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.
Ilana Redstone
· 7 min read
Thank You, APA
Turns out, the traditional masculinity that drives many of us men to be confident, assertive, adventurous, stoic, and willing to take risks for our goals, the people we love, and sometimes even complete strangers are bad for us and society.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Truth and Disfavored Identities
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
Gillette's Progressive Politics: 'Corinthian Leather' for the Progressive Soul
n the 1960s, being progressive meant expanding the range of permissible behaviour. A half century later, it’s about imposing constraints.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Is Western Civilization Uniquely Bad?
If we are looking for a civilization that never engaged in mass violence or destruction, we’re unlikely to find one.
James Kierstead
· 8 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later
As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.”
Steven Pinker
· 52 min read
Agnès Bun's Invincible Summer
Bun’s frankness about her own frailties lends her reporting the credibility and moral authority of honesty—the authenticity with which she writes closes the distance between journalist and reader, and her videos transport us into the world she covers.
Joe Hefferon
· 9 min read
In Praise of Boredom, Again
Brodsky said that when confronted by boredom we should “exact full look at the worst.” He said “When hit by boredom, go for it. Let yourself be crushed by it; submerge, hit bottom.”
Caroline ffiske
· 6 min read
Is Western Civilization a Thing?
Appiah is wrong to pretend that distinct civilizations were never a thing.
James Kierstead
· 9 min read
The Future of Our Ancient Past
There’s nothing wrong with teaching Western Civilization or the Western classics alongside other cultural traditions. At the same time, the way Classics used to be taught is gone for good.
James Kierstead
· 6 min read
Is Religious Belief in Decline?
“Every human being worships something,” we’re told, whether it’s the movement of the planets, alien civilizations, a political cause, science, or even reason.
Matt Johnson
· 10 min read
Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian University
No one at Wilfrid Laurier University would give me a straight answer about anything. It was a climate of evasiveness and secrecy.
Lindsay Shepherd
· 7 min read