The British Conservative Party Should Stop Cancelling Conservatives
Two weeks ago, the Edmund Burke Foundation convened a conference on National Conservatism in Rome. The conference committee, of which both...
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How To Think About Our Problems
As I travel around the United States, giving presentations on human progress, I am encouraged by the enthusiasm with which the audiences...
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PODCAST 78: Award-winning journalist Christie Blatchford (1951-2020) on the importance of due process
The late Canadian journalist Christie Blatchford gave a speech last year about the importance of due process and the dangers of the #MeToo...
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Canada’s Epic Rail Crisis Offers the World a Cautionary Tale on Indigenous Mantras
Speaking at the Oscars earlier this month, Māori director and writer Taika Waititi told his audience they were “gathered on the ancestral...
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Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776
The United States of America began in 1776, not 1619. That one sentence is the thesis statement of “1776”—a non-partisan black-led...
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The Decadent Society—A Review
A review of The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, by Ross Douthat. Simon & Schuster (February 25 2020)...
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Putin at the World Holocaust Forum
Earlier this month, some ten days after the World Holocaust Forum held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to...
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Cosmic Justice and the Expectation Gap
The quest for “cosmic justice”—a term coined by the economist Thomas Sowell in his book of the same name—describes the efforts to...
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PODCAST 77: Political theorist Yoram Hazony on national conservatism and why it causes controversy
Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony talks to Toby Young about the national conservatism conference in Rome, where the speakers...
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Yale against Western Art
For decades, Yale offered a two-semester introductory sequence on the history of Western art. The fall semester spanned the ancient Middle...
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How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority?
President Xi has become, since his inauguration in 2012, China’s most powerful leader since Mao. His likely longevity in the post is...
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My Former Life as a Radical
To understand what it’s like to be a radical, it helps to speak to those once held under the sway of a radical ideology. Broadly defined,...
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Holbrooke and the 68ers
Our Man—Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer, Knopf, 608 pages, (May 2019) Power and the Idealists by...
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The Battle to Feed All of Humanity Is Over. Humanity Has Won
As the editor of a website documenting human progress, I am sometimes asked to name the one statistic that best exemplifies the improving...
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Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell
On 9 January 2020, officials at the Melbourne Assessment Prison intercepted a drone flying over the prison grounds. Remotely piloted...
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PODCAST 76: Venture capitalist Michael Solana on the coming corporatization of Mars
Venture capitalist Michael Solana talks to Jonathan Kay about interstellar corporatocracy—and why we should welcome it. He wrote about...
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The Misguided Moral Panic About Racism in British Universities
According to one of the most extensive surveys ever conducted by the European Union, the U.K. is one of the least racist societies in the...
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Is Democracy Compatible with Extreme Inequality?
In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville took a 10-month trip to the United States to study the American penal system. In the resulting...
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Thatcher Warned Us to Go Slow on European Integration. Too Bad We Didn’t Listen
This November will mark thirty years since former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher left office. After she had narrowly failed to...
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Progressive Education Works—But Only for Those Who Need The System Least
In the latest OECD student-evaluation rankings, Australia performed dismally. Average benchmark PISA test results for the country’s...
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