Does progress have to mean the sexual liberation of children? Michel Foucault thought so, as did many of the now high-ranking Labour Party members who once supported the… 1,833 more wordsThe rise of the liberal groomer — UnHerd
Why Russians hated the Nineties — UnHerd
The Nineties were a time of American hegemony and British cockiness. The internet was a utopian idea as opposed to a collective psychological disorder. Climate change, terrorism, autocracy and gross inequality were either not-on-the-radar or assumed to be moving in the right direction. 1,750 more wordsWhy Russians hated the Nineties — UnHerd
The Hippie Dreamers’ “Last Stand” in San Francisco
Well, we can hope so: After three members of San Francisco’s Board of Education lost a special election in a landslide vote, many of the city’s residents were hesitant to predict the same fate for district attorney Chesa Boudin, who faces a recall referendum in June. Boudin has backers with broad influence and deep pockets—but a new …
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Have we reached peak trans? — UnHerd
Is it really too much to ask those who struggle to define the word “woman” to refrain from running for public office? Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe’s Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was asked to provide the dreaded definition during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. “No I can’t,” she replied. “I’m not a biologist.” Jackson…Have we …
Our Obsession with Credentials
Growing up with an obsessively patriotic father, one of the advantages he gave of our society over the one we separated ourselves form (and I mean the United Kingdom) was that, while the UK elevated people based on their credentials, ours did so based on what they actually accomplished. Whether his characterisation of the UK …
Those Treasonous Conservatives
They are the object of the ire of establishment lefties and neocons alike: As pervasive as “traitor” accusations were during the Trump presidency, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has elevated this "treason” mania to never-before-seen heights. Everyone and anyone who questions or deviates in any way from the prevailing bipartisan consensus is accused of being …
Energy Puritans Enable Enemies of Democracies — Science Matters
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg (Reuters) Western media has stirred up a puritanical revulsion against carbon-based energy, resulting in calls for prohibition of fossil fuels. Leaders in western democracies responded with regulations and constraints punishing companies either producing energy or operating supply infrastructure. This empowers market dominance by sovereign energy […]Energy …
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My Canadian Sheeple Problem
Justin Trudeau's brutal suppression of the truckers' protest in Ottawa--and it upholding by the Canadian Parliament--has for me one silver lining. It's solved a long-running mystery concerning a long time commenter (troll, really) of this blog and then my Twitter account, one David Lloyd-Jones of Toronto. For four years, from 2013 to 2017, we went …
The liberal order is already dead — Unherd
In the summer of 1990, I stood where the wall had been and wondered at what had happened to Europe. I wasn’t alone: the rest of the city, the rest of…The liberal order is already dead
Those Un-Aspirational Americans
Or, as the New York Times magazine put it, anti-ambitional: But those top-line numbers obscure a muddier truth. After the latest employment numbers were released in February (which seemed to show remarkable job growth and an unemployment rate of 4 percent), one B.L.S. economist took to his Substack to call it the “most complicated job …
