Rejection used to be common for medical sociologist Thomas LaVeist when he tried to get his research published on the effects of racism on the health of black people. “Now,” said the 60-year-old dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, “I have those same journals asking me to write articles for […]
An American academic at a progressive university outlines his strategies for overturning the woke juggernaut. I’m a professor of engineering at a large progressive university. I’ve written and just released a short book with James Lindsay called Counter Wokecraft: A Field Manual for Combatting the Woke in the University and Beyond. I’ve written it to help […]
‘Wokeism’ and ‘Safetyism’ are closely linked. In their now justly famous 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff proposed “Safetyism” as the name for a novel “moral culture” that had originated on college and university campuses and was rapidly colonizing the larger American culture. Haidt and Lukianoff define Safetyism as […]
Politicians are just grasping at straws. That’s not science. Insanity is famously doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. Like writing columns about Covid-19. Or attributing lines to Einstein we have no reason to suppose he really said. In the wise words of Abraham Lincoln, “Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet […]
The head of US Catholic bishops reflects on the challenge of secularization. You have asked me to address a serious, sensitive, and complicated topic — the rise of new secular ideologies and movements for social change in the United States and the implications for the Church. And of course, I think we all understand that […]
This high-profile case has reopened the debate about US gun rights and self-defense laws. Kyle Rittenhouse — the American teenager who killed two Black Lives Matter demonstrators and injured another one— has been found not guilty by a jury. Prior to the trial, left-wing media — and even then-candidate Joe Biden— ceaselessly portrayed Rittenhouse as a white supremacist […]
We need a labour market which supports families, argues Oren Cass, in a brilliant policy book. Over the last two years, the overwhelming focus on the pandemic has obscured many other issues. It is easy to overlook the growing dissatisfaction with the economic status quo which existed prior to Covid. Explanations for why there has […]
In both the US and the UK, ‘transwomen’ are much, much less likely to be murdered than women. Despite repeated trans activist claims that the trans community is experiencing an epidemic of violence on a Holocaust-like scale, their own data seems to paint a decidedly different picture. On November 1st, Forbes published a column from writer Dawn Ennis […]
The truth always comes out eventually. Last week, Russian-born analyst Igor Danchenko, who lives in Washington DC, was arrested for making false statements to the FBI. While this may sound like another innocuous headline in these days of deceit, Danchenko’s arrest is the latest chapter in a breathtaking political scandal that renders Watergate child’s play. All the […]
The American Medical Association has veered sharply to the left. The American Medical Association represents fewer than 15% of practicing physicians in the United States. It’s difficult to know exactly. But its influence is all out of proportion to its membership. Which makes its pivot to the left significant for American healthcare. The AMA has gone broke […]
It took a catastrophe like Covid-19 for many to recognize the depth of problems in U.S. schools. For months, all eyes have been on the Virginia governor’s race as both Democrats and Republicans saw it as a battleground for things to come. As it turned out, Republican Glenn Youngkin easily won the seat in a […]
In the very first line of her introduction, written with admirable clarity and courage, as is the entire book, Kathleen Stock outlines her program: “This book is about sex, and about the mysterious thing known as ‘gender’. It is about how, in the first quarter of the twenty-first century … a philosophical theory about something […]
Life is full of surprises and a big one came at us just the other day – from a Chinese guy. Not just any Chinese guy, but an ardent Chinese nationalist who is First Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China. Now wait a minute — how can a Chinese nationalist be atop […]
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Elections that follow a Presidential race routinely trend against the party in the White House, so Republicans were expected to do well in the assorted votes that took place around the country this week. But no […]
The COP26 conference on climate change may have solved little, but it was a brilliant opportunity to recycle hoary clichés about overpopulation. Professor Paul Sutton, of the University of Denver, was a delegate for the American Association of Geographers at COP26. He wrote in The Hill, the largest independent political news site in the US: “without population […]