The Infinite Reopening of History
Removal, expulsion, ethnic cleansing, erasure, even genocide. These are the fruits of the idea that the world can be made right again by undoing history.
John Aziz
· 7 min read
Activism
A collection of 250 posts
Against Utopianism
The world is not waiting for our utopian visions to make sense of it and order it. Liberal democracy works when it assumes as much.
Dustin N. Sharp
· 8 min read
Pride and Prejudice
The self-esteem movements that once deranged America’s school curricula have since deranged the realm of identity activism.
Steve Salerno
· 16 min read
Leaving the Woke Cult with Anthony Rispo | Quillette Cetera Ep. 52
Heterodox psychology grad Anthony Rispo joins Zoe Booth to unpack leaving woke ideology and the psychology behind identity, conformity, and belief.
Zoe Booth
· 27 min read
The Heterofatalism Trap
Essays about contemporary dating are mistaking cruelty for liberation.
Daniel Lehewych
· 14 min read
Rethinking “Harm Reduction”
Once seen as a model of progressive drug policy, San Francisco now stands as a morbid example of how that approach has gone astray.
Christopher Calton
· 18 min read
Sexual Perversity in Ontario
An absurd trial, a prurient media circus, and a failure of feminist ethics.
Marilyn Simon
· 12 min read
Greta Thunberg’s Fifteen Minutes
The climate activist’s simplistic slogans and hectoring style proved effective when she was still a child. But now that she’s an adult, the act is losing its shine.
Allan Stratton
· 11 min read
Who Are the Snowflakes Now?
The state should never be in the business of enforcing any particular ideology, but nor should it be in the business of suppressing it.
George Case
· 8 min read
The WEF’s Gender Disinformation Campaign
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
David C. Geary
· 14 min read
Christopher Rufo’s Pyrrhic Victory
Instead of building the broadest possible coalition for his cause, Rufo is busy making enemies of potential allies.
Matt Johnson
· 20 min read
Hamas and Feminist Dissonance
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Sonya Michel
· 20 min read
Memorial Daze
Notions of injury or exclusion are often based on shifting cultural sensitivities and political pressures, rather than on any permanent, universal measure of good and evil.
George Case
· 7 min read
A Very American Madness
America is not fallen; it is simply given to periodic bouts of insanity. The patient is tiresome; the patient is ridiculous; but the patient is stable.
Ronald W. Dworkin
· 17 min read
Culture of Complaint and the New Deal Murals
Art in public spaces will always be scrutinised for the propriety of its iconography, and it will remain under attack as long as its guardians are willing to pander to the narcissistic impulses of the activists.
Julia Friedman
· 7 min read