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A new religion is preached across America. It's nonsense posing as wisdom.
John McWhorter
56
As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Here’s how it felt to enter history in the trans debate.
Keira Bell
33
Yascha Mounk: The CDC came scarily close to adopting a plan that would have killed thousands of Americans.
Yascha Mounk
243
There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced. Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment.
Emily Yoffe
42
It's perfect for affluent whites who want to be heroes of a story about justice
Batya Ungar-Sargon
39
Rittenhouse was no hero. But the failure of the media helps explain why so many people expected him to be convicted.
Jesse Singal
58
To remedy racial injustice, we must insist that what we have in common is more important than what divides us.
Coleman Hughes
19
We must end the culture of performative repentance.
Trent Colbert
31
Educational institutions have a duty to oppose monomania and to lead students out of its stultifying embrace.
Jonathan Haidt
37
How the right's monomania and the left's Great Awokening feed each other
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Greg Lukianoff
7
To defend the values of a free society with courage and conviction, we need to build institutions of our own.
Yascha Mounk
36
A new moralism is gripping the literary world, treating grownups like children
Otis Houston
18
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