Kanye Among the Groypers
by Ben SixsmithTalent, be it musical or rhetorical, is wonderful until it’s directed toward absurd or corrupt ends. Continue Reading »
Consensus Reality
by John WilsonAndrew Klavan's wonderful new installment in the Cameron Winter series subtly warns against the reign of blue-check cultural informers. Continue Reading »
The Girls Who Resisted Boko Haram
by Jonathon Van MarenWhile the world demanded their return, the captive girls were under relentless pressure to convert to Islam and marry militants chosen for them. They were threatened with beheading or brutal slavery if they refused. Continue Reading »
Five Ways Elon Musk Can Improve the Digital Public Square
by Jon SchweppeWe shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. While we wait for Republicans in Congress to finally gin up the courage to fix the problem, there’s a lot that Elon Musk can do in the meantime to help. Continue Reading »
Elon Musk and the Posthumanist Threat
by John WatersMusk is not any kind of conservative, and so the tentative cheers that have greeted his apparent routing of the Twitter board might more wisely have been postponed until we see what the new Twitter may look and sound like.
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Lessons From the Reformation’s Pamphlet War
by Carl R. TruemanTwitter is both a symptom and a contributing cause of the collapse of rationality we see all around us. Like the pamphlets of the sixteenth century, tweets are ephemeral and insubstantial. Continue Reading »
Stigmatize Social Media
by Samuel D. JamesRegulation of social media companies is a good idea, but the wisest, most plausible, and also most effective option is not law, but stigma. Continue Reading »
Judging the Sins of Our Fathers
by Carl R. TruemanThe slavery of colonial and antebellum America was tragic but there is nothing we can do to change that history. The present is a different matter. That is our responsibility.
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Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities
by Ross DouthatFor the last fifty years, from the Second Vatican Council onward, it made sense to speak of an American Catholicism fully reconciled to liberal democracy. On the fringes there were still some noteworthy anti-liberal and radical Catholic periodicals and writers, but the mainstream was defined by the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Political Power of Big Tech
by R. R. RenoBig Tech's power to define the limits of free speech is part of a larger trend, one that has shifted a great deal of political power away from elected representatives and into the hands of private actors. Continue Reading »
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