The Moral Contamination of Free Speech
We find ourselves living in an age where free speech is considered by many as a concept that only right-wingers care about. “You think free speech is important?” I’m asked.…
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September 2017
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The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
Growing up as a child I didn’t know much about Communism except that it was bad. I knew that it was atheistic from what I had heard at the mosque……
An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion
The rights and social inclusion of trans people is a heated topic right now and, as usual in our present atmosphere, the most extreme views take center stage and completely…
The Strange Death of Europe, Revisited
Areo has already published a review of Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe. However, since the book and its relevant themes are still being discussed, we thought a critical…
Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars?
One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course…
A Plea for the Humanities
I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, “critical race” theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern streams of thought on college…
How Terrorists Are Creating a New Language
I have been stalking members of the terrorist group Tawheed Network (formerly al-Muhajiroun). I have spied on them over the Internet, and heard much gossip about them in my neighborhood of Bury…
Appropriating Confusion: A Reply to Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs
Earlier this year, Kenan Malik wrote an essay in the New York Times critical of the now-fashionable concept of “cultural appropriation.” The article caused some controversy. Briahna Joy Gray wrote…
It’s Not Hard for Conservatives to Be on Campus Because They’re Stupid, It’s Hard Because You Are
Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative.” I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across…
Same-Sex Marriage: A Case for “Yes”
In its recent decision, the High Court of Australia cleared the way for a voluntary survey of the electorate to gauge community support for same-sex marriage. I don’t defend this…
What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know
Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”…
The Curious Case of Jordan Peterson
Few have reigned as steady and strong a champion of free speech as well as an opponent of political correctness as University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson. Over the…
George Orwell Would Dislike You, Me, and Our Opinions
There is no historical figure — with the exception, perhaps, of Jesus Christ — whose legacy ideologues are keener to appropriate than that of Eric Blair, better known as George…
Finger Size Does Matter… In Sports
Examine your fingers. Which is longer? Is it the index finger (the finger you use to point with — technically the second digit, or 2D, counting the thumb), or the…
The Textual Roots of Islamic Violence
We’re all familiar with the routine by now. A terrorist attack occurs. Hours later, the world learns the identity of the attacker (or, the identities of the attackers). Then comes…
The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline
It is in the nature of things that they should rise and fall. The tide that laps against the coasts of the United States, from sea to shining sea, rises,…
Thoughts on a Friend’s Suicide
In the very last days of 2016, one of my favorite people in the world took his own life. It hit me very hard. Not only because of how I…
In Defense of HBO’s Counterfactual ‘Confederate’
In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series Confederate, a show that will take place in a world in which the South successfully seceded from the Union and…
