How Sport Can Reduce Racism: An Irish Case Study
Most people would probably agree that we should aspire to live in a world in which race matters less—perhaps even, as Sam Harris has suggested, becoming as inconsequential as one’s…
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Historical Revisionism and Critiques of Video Games
On 21 August 2020, Activision released a teaser trailer for its upcoming first-person shooter franchise Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War. It attracted social media indignation for its use…
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Why Facts Are Overrated
Although the information age is said to have begun in the latter part of the twentieth century, one could argue that we are now experiencing its peak, since almost everyone…
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Rethinking Race
At the beginning of the twentieth century, to be a progressive, right-thinking American intellectual was to believe in the genetic superiority of certain racial groups. Otherwise known as eugenics or…
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Bleeding Kenosha: 2020 Echoes of the Conflict that Preceded the Civil War
While black America continues to endure the impact of racism and violence, the fight against racial injustice and brutality is being fought both through the ballot box and in the…
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Caste and Race in the Legal Systems of India and the United States
Comparison itself seems to imply a potential that may seduce into jumping far too early towards far-reaching conclusions.—Andre Gingrich Recent works by Isabel Wilkerson, Susan Bayly, Gail Omvedt, Célestin…
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Nietzsche on Politics as Nihilism: A Response to Matt McManus
How could a political innovation suffice to turn men once and for all into contented inhabitants of the earth? If anyone really does believe in this possibility, he ought to…
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Feelings Don’t Care About Your Facts: The Psychological Roots of Ideology
Recent political commentary has observed a dissociation from traditional left–right political views and a move towards the extreme ends of the political spectrum. The increasing chasm between the major parties…
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Is Michael Shellenberger’s “Apocalypse Never” an Ecomodernist Work?
Michael Shellenberger’s recent book Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All has received enormous media attention in the relevant circles. There has been much dispute over the book’s factual…
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Don’t Read This Book
Just when you thought that the Trump literature spreading like ivy on retail bookshelves had finally completed its life cycle, here come Michael Cohen and Sarah Huckabee Sanders with more…
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Own the Filth: Writing Into the Ethical Compromises of Fiction
Novelists these days face difficult working conditions, even the few who land seven-figure deals. Witness this year’s fiercest skirmish on the literary frontline of the culture wars: the clash over…
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The Bipartisan Decay of American Culture
Protesters in Wisconsin torched the inventory of a used car lot, destroyed a municipal truck and smashed the doors and windows of a public library, to protest the death of…
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The Soft Mob: Intolerance and the New Definition of “Harm”
In the festival of non-sequiturs that was the reaction to the Harper’s letter, two equally specious rebuttals rose to the fore: the first, that freedom of expression has become a…
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The Nature Behind Human Potential: Robert Plomin’s “Blueprint”
The first rule of behavioural genetics is that every trait is heritable. What makes us different is only about 1 per cent of our entire genetic code. Ninety-nine per cent…
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What Conservatism Is Not
In 2014, Sir Roger Scruton famously proclaimed that “conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”…
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Institutions vs. Individuals: How We Judge Our Political Opponents
Most policy approaches can be divided into two broad categories: those that address institutions and root causes, and those that focus on individuals and effects. For instance, in the context…
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Sex, Love and Sexual Autism
Sex came first. It arrived before any concept of self or other, before there was care for anyone at all. And certainly before love. Sexual reproduction first evolved 1.2 billion…
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The Great White Awokening: How Conservatives Can Temper Woke Excesses and Assuage White Guilt
White wokeness is now firmly embedded in America’s national consciousness. We have just seen over two full months of antiracism riots in Portland, Oregon—America’s whitest city—and one of the Democrats’…
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