US Politics
Why feminists should oppose the death penalty
Feminists should be against the death penalty on the basis that the criminal justice system is built upon sexism, racism and class prejudice
History shows that violence is ‘as American as cherry pie’
Violence is intrinsic to America and we shouldn’t expect it to cease being so when Donald Trump leaves office
Heads should roll after the BBC’s coverage of the Capitol Hill riot
Under Fran Unsworth, the BBC’s news and current affairs output has let us down again and again
The MAGA mob
Was it worth it?
Unravelling the myth of George Soros
Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy
Jocko vs. Evil
Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL and podcaster, grapples with classic accounts of atrocity—and nurtures a spark of 20th-century American idealism
The breakdown of higher education
A British-American professor explains how diversity ruined academia, and how to reform it
Could there be a dark end to America’s constitutional crisis?
Coup talk, whether or not it is admitted as such, is plainly in the air at both ends of the spectrum
Social media hypocrisy has huge implications for liability
Social media’s ridiculous denial of partisan editing and publishing
Donald Trump’s likeliest path to staying in office
A contingent election would provide at least a patina of respectable constitutionalism