Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

DENIAL: THE UNSPEAKABLE TRUTH

Well, this will set off some of our readers. Forward DENIAL THE UNSPEAKABLE TRUTH Keith Kahn-Harris The Holocaust never happened. The planet isn’t warming. Vaccines cause autism. There is no such thing as AIDS. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, dressed in the garb of […]

Reckon with This

We cannot rethink history to console those it embarrasses. George Case 8 Oct 2022 Quillette There are many designations lately applied to social justice movements on behalf of women, non-white people, the LGBTQ community, and other groups: #MeToo. Black Lives Matter. Gay Pride. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Some […]

The GOP Is Herschel Walker

A clarifying glimpse into the values of the Party of Trump Andrew Sullivan (Demetrius Freeman/WaPo via Getty Images) There are times, I confess, when I decide to pass on writing another column on how degenerate the Republican Party is. What else is there to say? It’s not as […]

GOP Populists lack an Institutional Strategy

By Robert Stark Robert Stark The historically unprecedented FBI raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago further exacerbated existing polarization and solidifies how the right now views institutions, including federal law enforcement, as politicized against them. Now many conservatives view the national security apparatus as the enemy, with Marjorie Taylor Green […]

America’s Four Star Problem

Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative TAC senior fellow Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.), has long been a gadfly to the American brass. In a Thursday piece written with Joshua Whitehouse of Personnel Policy Operations, Macgregor pointed out that the U.S. Armed Forces have gotten top-heavy. While the Second World […]

Is this Systemic Racism?

Michael Huemer Systemic Racism: Examples In recent years, the term “systemic racism” has become popular, due to how it enables you to go around calling more and more things “racist” even in the absence of any people who actually have any racial prejudice. Be that as it may, […]

The Ballad of Jared Kushner

New York Review of Books Sponsored by Brandeis University Press Our October 20 issue is online now, with Fintan O’Toole and Darryl Pinckney on the queen and the Windsors, Jenny Uglow on Berlin, Joshua Cohen on Jared Kushner’s ego-neediness, Kwame Anthony Appiah on the German Romantics, Sue Halpern on […]