Archive - Persuasion

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A new religion is preached across America. It's nonsense posing as wisdom.

Feb 8, 2021

As a teen, she transitioned to male but came to regret it. Here’s how it felt to enter history in the trans debate.

Apr 7, 2021

Yascha Mounk: The CDC came scarily close to adopting a plan that would have killed thousands of Americans.

Dec 23, 2020

There is a pattern in the way speech is silenced. Understanding it can help us stand up to the illiberalism of this moment.

Jul 21, 2020

It's perfect for affluent whites who want to be heroes of a story about justice

Batya Ungar-Sargon

Mar 10, 2021

Rittenhouse was no hero. But the failure of the media helps explain why so many people expected him to be convicted.

Nov 19, 2021

To remedy racial injustice, we must insist that what we have in common is more important than what divides us.

Aug 19, 2020

We must end the culture of performative repentance.

Oct 25, 2021

Educational institutions have a duty to oppose monomania and to lead students out of its stultifying embrace.

Oct 1, 2021

To defend the values of a free society with courage and conviction, we need to build institutions of our own.

Jul 5, 2020

How the right's monomania and the left's Great Awokening feed each other

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Oct 29, 2021

A new moralism is gripping the literary world, treating grownups like children

Mar 19, 2021

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