The End of Liberal Loyalty
“That was a time when New York Times journalists and academics would take to Twitter to distance themselves publicly from a newly controversial colleague while fantasising about how they’d decorate…
The Age Curve of Radicalism
There’s been a growing number of studies mapping the distribution of personality traits among followers of different ideologies. Movements like LGBT activism, feminism, and the climate crusade tend to attract…
Rather The Great Bureaucratization than Great Feminisation
The most widely discussed essay of recent weeks is Helen Andrews’ The Great Feminization. The American journalist argues that what is often attributed to neo-Marxism, to extreme forms of political…
The Law That Isn’t There
“Whoever prepares an aggressive war shall be punished by imprisonment for twelve to twenty years, or by an exceptional sentence.”Some cite this paragraph from the Czech criminal code today, in…
How to Recognize a Dictator
Nicolás Maduro does not want American companies to profit, and therefore he becomes undesirable. Once again, the Western press calls him a dictator. But the more reflective reader may pause…
The Two Feminisms That Made the West
Over the past week, there’s been plenty of discussion about Helen Andrews’s essay “The Great Feminization.” I’ll return to her argument in full another time. For now, let me make…