COVID-19’s Death Toll: A Historical Perspective
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, public discussion of the virus’s lethality has focussed on two metrics: the infection fatality rate...
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Trump’s Exit: An Optimist’s Take on What Happens Next
When staunch Trump ally and FOX News host Laura Ingraham admitted to her viewers that Trump had not won the election in late November, she...
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The Battle for Moral Authority
When Amazon rejected my documentary What Killed Michael Brown? from its platform last October, I was stunned by the rejection letter’s...
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Why ‘Just Follow the Science’ Won’t Solve All Our Problems
Science can be truly wondrous—as we’ve all come to appreciate now that scientists have developed a COVID-19 vaccine (several, in fact)...
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The Value of Knowledge
To no one’s surprise, Nikole Hannah-Jones, the mind behind the New York Times‘s 1619 Project, has spread a new falsehood. On Twitter, she...
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Politics vs. Mental Health: How the Culture War Blocked My Healing Process
Donald Trump may be one of the most intensely psychoanalyzed figures in American history, with many critics casually labelling him...
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Beating Up Boomer
Reviews of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney, Hachette, 465 pages (March 2018) OK...
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BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements
“I love my nine-year-old son very much but knowing what I know about the future of this planet and the environment he is going to inherit…...
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Big Tech and Regulation—A Response to the Quillette Editors
Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter. And Facebook, Reddit, Twitch, Shopify, Snap, Stripe, Discord, and—most...
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Why We Should Read Martin Amis
Written after his father’s passing, Martin Amis’s memoir Experience highlighted my project in the first chapter in the second footnote:...
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PODCAST 134: John McWhorter on the Ideological Excesses of the Social-Justice Movement
Columbia University professor John McWhorter speaks with political satirist and TV presenter Josh Szeps about the transformation of...
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COVID Has Forced Teachers to Confront Longstanding Problems—And Education Will Never Be the Same
The halls are eerily silent. No slamming lockers, talkative teens, or stairwell make-out sessions. Right about now, I’d gladly take a...
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Three Plane Rides and the Quest for a Just Society
In the paper that started the concept of “microaggressions” on its path to prominence, lead-author Derald Wing Sue recounts an incident...
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Degree Requirements for Police Officers Will Not Make Us Safer
On December 7th, 2020, California State assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles), introduced a bill that sought to codify a...
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Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks
I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant of lockdown scepticism is rebarbative...
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Republicans’ Lyceum Moment—and America’s
The assault on the US Capitol, not by foreign invaders but a domestic mob, left the American public (outside the most hardened and...
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Britain Needs a New Approach to Homelessness
Author note: Some of the names in this essay have been changed in accordance with the wishes of those interviewed. “Out here, everyone’s...
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Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy
The appointing of Kathleen Stock—who advocates some pre-2015 views on gender identity—as an Officer of the Order British Empire last month...
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The Wisdom of a Slave: A Defence of Stoicism
We all have desires. We feel frustrated when we don’t get what we want and pleased when we do. Is this the secret to a happy life during...
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PODCAST 133: Cheri Jacobus on How Donald Trump Used Twitter to Destroy People’s Lives (Including Hers)
Jonathan Kay speaks with Cheri Jacobus, a veteran Republican Party worker and conservative media figure who was mobbed and deplatformed...
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