Mark Carney described the fetish parade that Pride has become as "the essence of Canada," and to be fair, he's right. Canadians have voluntarily entered into a BDSM-style relationship with their own government. Read me spiked: spiked-online.com/2025/08/17/pri…

This ideology is on the way out. It's still widely believed and entrenched in many institutions, but its intellectual vacuousness is being exposed every day for all to see. They have no coherent argument, just snark and sanctimony. We've had enough.

Economic historians largely disagree with the claim that "Slavery turned America into an economic superpower" Here is a recent article by Gavin Wright, summarizing a career's worth of work by him (and others) aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The gender inquisitors seeking to destroy the livelihood of a nurse for saying "human beings cannot change sex" are carrying out the defining goal of the trans rights movement

Compelled messaging cheapens the message.

When people question progress, show them this 1993 ad.

As universities start orientation week, presidents and provosts will be delivering welcoming speeches to new students. Instead of focusing on emotional support services, they should tell students to be prepared to be intellectually challenged. Learning involves exposing oneself

The US needs more such conversations. Hard facts need to be aired and discussed widely.

“Higher education should be where young adults test their ideas, risk being wrong, and develop the resilience to engage in civil disagreement. Instead, they are learning to calculate, to posture, to say one thing in public and another in private.” The Price We Pay for

Publication day! AUTHORITARIANS IN THE ACADEMY is officially out. Thanks to everyone, especially my colleagues at FIRE and my publisher Hopkins Press, who helped me get this from an idea to a draft to a finished book. It’s available for purchase now.

🎓 Are free speech and academic freedom flourishing at your institution?

Victimhood Isn’t a Virtue. Wearing victimhood like a badge of honor doesn’t make society better — it keeps it stuck. Let’s talk about it TOMORROW, August 20th at 7 PM EST as we discuss Thomas Sowell’s Social Justice Fallacies and the cost of a victimhood culture.

Even one such case is tragic. But it’s routine. A rotten regime holds onto power by sowing fear.

Orwell explained the moral character of these people in *1984*. Orwell had dealt with them in British journalism.

Just because the U.S. is hypocritical, it doesn’t mean that Europe’s free speech problems aren’t real—or worsening, as Conor Friedersdorf chronicles in his latest piece at The Atlantic (in which I’m also quoted). Principled free speech advocates should be sounding the alarm.

Scientific American disowns its recent past. A big step back to science.

Trans-lunacy in the Anglosphere is now harming trans-sexuals elsewhere. In Turkey, adults have long been free to get hormone treatment, even surgery. But trans-activism in the UK and USA, especially the grooming of children, has diminished this tolerance. A hospital in Samsun, a