Lebanon's Malignant State
Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion.
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
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The Russia Report
It is “widely recognised,” says the report, “that Russian intelligence and business are completely intertwined".
John Lloyd
· 13 min read
Look Who’s Talking About Educational Equity
However well intentioned, these programs will likely increase inequities rather than reduce them, and push the nation’s colleges still closer to the low level of its public schools.
Lyell Asher
· 7 min read
Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias
Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
How to Fight the Enemies of Academic Freedom
Even though large tracts of our cultural landscape and many old and famous American institutions have fallen or may fall into the grip of this hostile ideology and all the odious apparatus of cancel culture rule, we shall not flag or fail.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 6 min read
George Orwell and the Struggle against Inevitable Bias
Orwell’s most personally searing experience, though, had come in Barcelona in 1937.
Adam Wakeling
· 11 min read
Getting Rid of Bar Exams Won't Help Anyone
Moreover, proponents of lowering the bar aren’t always acting on social-justice motives.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read
At a Time Like This, the West Could Use Its Own Vladimir Voinovich
Voinovich’s legacy has a personal aspect for me.
Cathy Young
· 16 min read
Lord Over All: Alexander the Great's Conquered World of Priests and Pagans
The poverty of Macedon made incense rarer than in Greece or the Near East, and it also made offerings rarer.
F.S. Naiden
· 14 min read
Cancel Culture and the Republican Concept of Liberty
A culture that pressures institutions to sanction speakers based on unwelcome ideas may not always or even rarely end in a direct censorship of speech.
Chang Che
· 7 min read
At the NHS and BBC, Important Steps Toward Restoring Balance in the Gender Debate
The fierce onslaught she received has served as a wake-up call, even for those who have not been following the debate closely.
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
The Woke Left v. the Alt-Right: A New Study Shows They’re More Alike Than Either Side Realizes
Optimists, however, will prefer to focus on another takeaway from the study, which is that no significant statistical relationship could be found between Dark Triad traits and PCL (i.e. Political Correctness-Liberalism) attitudes.
Zaid Jilani
· 5 min read
What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
Cameron Harwick
· 10 min read
My Life Pouring Concrete
During my first four years of occasional construction work, from 2014 to 2018, almost 5,000 workers in this field died on the job in the United States.
Michael Humeniuk
· 10 min read
The Futility of the Conservative War on Pornography
Concerns about pornography expressed by Christian and other religious and social conservatives are no doubt sincere.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read