Indefensible by Rohini Hensman: Book Review
Rohini Hensman has written a book that I have waited a long time to read. It is a much needed critique of the Left from the Left and a rallying…
Who is Afraid of Cultural Marxism: What the Frankfurt School Can Still Teach Us
Today cultural Marxism, or “post-modern neo-Marxism” as it is sometimes called on days when one doesn’t care about aesthetic grace, is often invoked as a boogey man by many conservative…
[Title Redacted] or How Not to Address Holocaust Denial and Anti-Semitism
When initially asked about Facebook’s refusal to remove the InfoWars page, John Hegeman, head of Facebook’s News Feed, said, “I guess just for being false that doesn’t violate the community…
Hating Whites Online: Sarah Jeong’s Tweets and Anti-White Racism
“Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” This statement, along with a number of similar postings, was tweeted…
Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage: A Review
In the fable describing a frog slowly boiled alive, the premise is that a frog suddenly dropped into boiling water will immediately leap out, but a frog placed in tepid…
The Illegitimate President: Donald Trump and the Faking of Democracy
Men, not Laws The United States of America proudly hails no more cherished old saw of its historic political achievement than that it is a nation “of laws and not…
The Liberal Spectrum: Cultural Libertarianism to “Call Out” Culture
The term “liberal” is wide-ranging and potentially confusing. This is unsurprising considering that the label ‘liberal’ is culturally specific to the extent where it is often understood to refer to…
Christopher Hitchens’ Defense of the Enlightenment
Christopher Hitchens is my favorite writer. His books probably made up around 80% of my high school reading diet. I devoured everything he published, from his autobiography to his studies…
A Brief Primer on Individualism in Western Intellectual History
As a non-Westerner, the respect and autonomy accorded the individual in the West have always intrigued me. No civilization, as far as I know, has given more scope to individual…
White Privilege: Is It a Helpful Concept?
In this article, I will argue that the concept of “white privilege” is a counterproductive way of framing concerns about anti-brown and anti-black racism in the West in general, and…
Medine Zaouiche and the Politics of Provocation
When French rapper Médine (real name Medine Zaouiche) decided to schedule a concert at the Bataclan theatre, where, in November 2015, Islamist jihadists massacred eighty-nine people, there was bound to…
Depression is Horrific but Suicide is not the Answer
This is not an essay I wanted to write, but, after the recent tragic loss of the author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain to suicide, I now feel compelled to…
The Immigration Crisis: Who is to Blame?
This was first published on inaswrites.wordpress.com. For a moment, just put yourself in this position: You’ve lived in the same village all your life—but you’ve always known that there’s a…
The Decline of Traditional Conservatism and the Rise of the Postmodern Conservative.
In a July 4 article in the New York Times, conservative icon Roger Scruton lamented “What Trump Doesn’t Get About Conservatism.” Scruton argues that Trump largely bypasses intellectual arguments about conservatism…
Anthro-Technological Decision-Making: A Lesson from the Cold War
Humanity’s capacity for critical thinking is of paramount importance to our survival. This remains true, even in our hyper real information age, in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an…
Cultural Evolution and Conservative Thought
“But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as a historical institution. If he knows how it arose,…
Lipstick, Pussy Power and Toxic Femininity
A harmful myth has been circulating recently which I feel called upon to counteract. Some have called it “toxic femininity.” I’ve seen it expressed, to varying degrees, in Jordan Peterson’s…
No, You Don’t Have a Disorder. You Have Feelings
The London Times recently carried a story about an avalanche of self-harm among British school children. According to the article, “school nurses are dealing with panic attacks, self-cutting, overdoses and…
