McClure's

03/05/2024

https://danielgordis.substack.com/p/i-saw-the-american-progressive-movement

An Israeli PhD student at Stanford, who formerly clerked at Israel's Supreme Court, shares what he's discovered about the American progressive left over these past weeks.

28/02/2024

https://thespectator.com/topic/luxury-life-feels-alien

When I first encountered Rob Henderson’s concept of “luxury beliefs” in 2019, it was a revelation. He defines them as “ideas and opinions

14/12/2023

https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way

America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves

02/12/2023

https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-raging-transgender-debate-in-the-netherlands

The Dutch, who pioneered gender medicine, are having second thoughts about puberty blockers and other interventions.

14/11/2023

https://spectator.org/how-george-floyd-actually-died/

Floyd had a paraganglioma, set off with the release of a large amount of adrenaline. This overwhelmed his heart, causing acute heart failure.

13/08/2023

Equity was born in an ideological graveyard

13/08/2023

The real scandal is the gate-keeping, groupthink and bias that politicizes some fields of science, turning it into the dogma, ‘the science’

12/08/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch

Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way

22/06/2023

https://harpers.org/archive/2023/07/protestant-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-wokeness/

The Protestant ethic and the spirit of wokeness

12/06/2023

It’s possible that what the trans kids really long for is escape, a desperate desire to remain childlike for as long as possible

08/06/2023

Begs for an "OK, Boomer" response.

Anglo-Calvinist moralism has turned the American arts into something strenuously polite and deadly dull

09/05/2023

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4374903

America’s justice system fails to find or punish the offender for the vast majority of serious crimes. Failures of justice are the norm, not the exception. Part

26/04/2023

https://quillette.com/2023/04/24/media-contagion/

Latter-day journalism is helping to realize its own false narratives.

02/01/2023

Censorship is driving dissident researchers underground

14/12/2022

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/nation-lone-wolves-adam-lanza-sandy-hook

Speculating about what might have motivated Adam Lanza to commit the atrocity at Sandy Hook Elementary School was difficult in 2012

10/10/2022

In 1607, the New World was more sparsely populated than anywhere in the Old World apart from its subarctic regions and the Sahara

09/06/2022

“anyone can claim to "feel unsafe"--it's a strategy police officers use to justify shooting unarmed persons. "stand your ground" as justification for homicides.”

02/06/2022

Liberal individualism has an innate tendency towards authoritarianism