James Lindsay: “Counter Wokecraft” and Responses to Institutional Takeover
The Center - “You have to have a steel spine in your liberalism. ‘What kind of government did you create, sir?’ ‘We created a republic, if [you] can keep it.’ The ‘if you can keep it’ part requires a steel spine.” 1/19/2022
The Center - “You have to have a steel spine in your liberalism. ‘What kind of government did you create, sir?’ ‘We created a republic, if [you] can keep it.’ The ‘if you can keep it’ part requires a steel spine.” 1/19/2022Finland, Russia, and the NATO Question: An Interview with Risto Penttilä
The Center - ” I think that we are, as always, pragmatic idealists.” 1/16/2022
The Center - ” I think that we are, as always, pragmatic idealists.” 1/16/2022Peter Boghossian: On the Purpose of Education
The Center - “It’s not that there’s anything wrong with debate. In fact, debate, in certain circumstances, can be good, but we can often solve the problems…through conversation.” 1/13/2022
The Center - “It’s not that there’s anything wrong with debate. In fact, debate, in certain circumstances, can be good, but we can often solve the problems…through conversation.” 1/13/2022Magatte Wade: The Power of Free Markets for Africa
The Center - “Eventually, I had an emotional crisis because I could no longer reconcile the life of abundance that the U.S. afforded me. I made a pact with myself that from here on, I’m really going to try to see what needs to happen for [Africa] to thrive.” 1/9/2022
The Center - “Eventually, I had an emotional crisis because I could no longer reconcile the life of abundance that the U.S. afforded me. I made a pact with myself that from here on, I’m really going to try to see what needs to happen for [Africa] to thrive.” 1/9/2022Frank Vogl: Understanding the Kleptocrats and Their Enablers
The Center - “Too often, people think of corruption as something that happens somewhere else: in Russia, in authoritarian regimes.” 12/29/2021
The Center - “Too often, people think of corruption as something that happens somewhere else: in Russia, in authoritarian regimes.” 12/29/2021Video: Merion West Co-Founders Speak at Alma Mater
The Center - Henri Mattila and Erich Prince tell the story of Merion West. 12/13/2021
The Center - Henri Mattila and Erich Prince tell the story of Merion West. 12/13/2021Sean Spicer: The Steele Dossier and “Radical Nation”
The Right - “I got the call on January 10th [2017] from CNN and then BuzzFeed about them running with this hoax. I pointed out at the time that it was wrong. I could demonstrably prove it was wrong. And yet, they stuck by it…” 11/26/2021
The Right - “I got the call on January 10th [2017] from CNN and then BuzzFeed about them running with this hoax. I pointed out at the time that it was wrong. I could demonstrably prove it was wrong. And yet, they stuck by it…” 11/26/2021Anne Kim: The AP Exam and the Standardized Testing Debate
The Left - “I think the downside of going test-optional, the downside of ignoring what assessments tell you, means that you might end up ignoring the underlying structural problems and never fixing the inequities.” 11/5/2021
The Left - “I think the downside of going test-optional, the downside of ignoring what assessments tell you, means that you might end up ignoring the underlying structural problems and never fixing the inequities.” 11/5/2021Fixing California’s Housing Crisis: An Interview with Nolan Gray
The Center - “To understand how land use regulation can help save California from the dystopian future it is currently facing, I spoke with Nolan Gray, an urban planner and outspoken land use policy wonk.” 8/26/2021
The Center - “To understand how land use regulation can help save California from the dystopian future it is currently facing, I spoke with Nolan Gray, an urban planner and outspoken land use policy wonk.” 8/26/2021Kay Hymowitz: The Devaluation of Higher Education
The Center - “This brings in the status issue again, doesn’t it? Because there are so many careers that people just wouldn’t consider because how would they tell their friends?” 7/28/2021
The Center - “This brings in the status issue again, doesn’t it? Because there are so many careers that people just wouldn’t consider because how would they tell their friends?” 7/28/2021Edward J. Watts: Dissecting the Rhetoric of Decline
The Center - “But one of the dangers is it’s very easy when there is change that makes someone uncomfortable to immediately say that this is a society that’s in decline and to blame somebody for causing it.” 7/22/2021
The Center - “But one of the dangers is it’s very easy when there is change that makes someone uncomfortable to immediately say that this is a society that’s in decline and to blame somebody for causing it.” 7/22/2021Kai Whiting: Clearing up Misconceptions about Stoicism
The Center - “The other fans that have a dangerously inaccurate idea about what it means to be Stoic are the ‘Broics.'” 7/12/2021
The Center - “The other fans that have a dangerously inaccurate idea about what it means to be Stoic are the ‘Broics.'” 7/12/2021Gov. Brian Kemp: How to Stand up to Corporate Pressure
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021
The Right - “We lost the All-Star Game, but I think we won the battle because that fight has moved to other states now because we are on the right side of this issue, and we push back so hard.” 6/9/2021Mary Harrington: Family Formation in the 2020s
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021
The Right - “The long-term problem there is that if your feminism becomes associated with anti-natalism, sooner or later it’s going to trigger a backlash, and that backlash is not going to look very nice for women.” 5/28/2021Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Immigration, Islam, and Christopher Hitchens
The Center - “What I have found in the book is strong enough to suggest that there is a correlation between mass migration from Muslim-majority countries and the increase in sexual violence.” 5/16/2021
The Center - “What I have found in the book is strong enough to suggest that there is a correlation between mass migration from Muslim-majority countries and the increase in sexual violence.” 5/16/2021Antje Ellermann: What Drives a Country’s Openness to Immigration
The Center - “Interest group pressure typically opens up immigration.” 4/29/2021
The Center - “Interest group pressure typically opens up immigration.” 4/29/2021