October 31, 2023

Central Europe turns postliberal

In his seminal 1984 essay, “The Tragedy of Central Europe,” Czech author Milan Kundera describes Central Europeans as cultural descendants of ancient Rome and the Catholic Church who were “kidnapped and displaced” by the USSR ...

May 23, 2016

Surgeon general’s warning: E-cigarettes make leftists crazy

In April 2016, the British Royal College of Physicians published a study vindicating the public health value of e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to smoked tobacco.  Demonstrating that e-cigarettes function as an effective aid to quitting smok...

May 19, 2016

#StarringJohnCho Brings Color to Black-and-White Racial Politics of Hollywood

The advocacy for affirmative action in Hollywood has gained a new champion: #StarringJohnCho.  The online social movement, inspired by the omission of Asian Americans from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy earlier this year, calls for casting Korea...

May 8, 2016

When Two’s a Crowd: Conservatism and Reactionary Trumpism Cannot Coexist in the GOP

In his poem, “A Prayer for My Daughter” (1919), W.B. Yeats laments the unfortunate pairing of exceptional women with odd and unworthy men: “It’s certain that fine women eat / A crazy salad with their meat / Whereby the Horn of...

April 20, 2016

Sex, lies, and bathrooms: Uncovering the truth behind North Carolina's law

Since North Carolina’s Republican governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2) into law on March 23, his state has become the subject of much ire and consternation.  The media swiftly dubbed the law “anti-LGBT”; ...