The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters
Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.
Jack Reilly
· 12 min read
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A Misremembered Day of Infamy
Brian Stewart
· 10 min read
Return of the Strong Gods: Understanding the New Right
A great many Americans held their noses to vote for Trump, whom they saw as the lesser evil.
Jordan Alexander Hill
· 20 min read
The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies
Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 6 min read
An Optimistic Outlook on 2021
The events of 2020 have caused precisely these sorts of setbacks in global collective human progress.
Tony Morley
· 7 min read
National Borders are Not Going Away
The only examples of ready mergers in humans bring to mind the captive chimps or fugitive monkeys.
Mark W. Moffett
· 6 min read
The Future Is Already Here
One can still sell people smartwatches, and create “new needs” for people who have already established lives of comfort.
Joshua Schwartz
· 10 min read
Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course
The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another.
Christos A. Makridis
· 6 min read
"I Was Never More Hated Than When I Tried to Be Honest"
Allergic to narrow-mindedness, poor taste, and moral arrogance, Ellison detested any kind of racial essentialism, separatism, and determinism.
Samuel Kronen
· 26 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You
Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.
Minnie Doe
· 10 min read
On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
Colin Wright
· 14 min read
God and the Pandemic
For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy
The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts.
Rav Arora
· 16 min read
Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later
North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.
Barbara Kay
· 14 min read
An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back
Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.
Brian Vincent
· 18 min read