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Jenny Jarvie
Free speech and loathing in Tennessee
A US government lecture to locals on tolerance proved to be an official exercise in resentment building.
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| Tuesday 11 June 2013 |
Brendan O’Neill
Let’s call a halt to the worship of whistleblowers
The increasingly irrational cult of the whistle-
blower is bad for politics and bad for journalism. We need some heretics to blow it apart.
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| Tuesday 14 May 2013 |
Nancy McDermott
Cleveland kidnappings: putting the poor on trial
Some observers are verging on blaming a whole rundown neighbourhood for Ariel Castro’s horrific crimes.
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| Tuesday 23 April 2013 |
Frank Furedi
Boston: what turns
nice guys into nihilists?
It isn't the lure of foreign jihad but rather the confusions and self-loathing of Western society itself that can turn youngsters violent.
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| Tuesday 23 April 2013 |
Wendy Kaminer
A city shut down, liberty surrendered
Wendy Kaminer reports from locked-down Boston, where Obama’s promise that ‘a bomb can’t beat us’ rang hollow.
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| Tuesday 23 April 2013 |
Sean Collins
America declares war on two losers
Why did the most powerful military nation on Earth freak out over a 19-year-old idiot in a backward baseball cap?
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| Thursday 18 April 2013 |
Bill Durodié
Boston: killers without a cause
Unlike in the 1970s and 80s, terrorism today has become an end in itself for alienated misanthropes.
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| Wednesday 17 April 2013 |
Frank Furedi
The Boston bombings: refusing to be terrorised
The spirit and solidarity shown by Bostonians confirm that while terrorism can kill people, it cannot kill community.
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| Tuesday 19 February 2013 |
Phil Mullan
Shale: the ‘IT bubble’ of the 21st century?
ESSAY: In the second part of his essay on the US economy, Phil Mullan says economic recovery will require more than a fracking bonanza.
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| Monday 18 February 2013 |
Phil Mullan
Industrial renaissance in the US: miracle or mirage?
ESSAY: In the first part of a two-part essay, Phil Mullan picks apart the hype of America's much-touted manufacturing recovery.
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| Monday 11 February 2013 |
Sean Collins
Israel-bashers: masters of the double standard
Radicals who protest against the censorship of anti-Israel academics cheer with hypocritical glee when Israeli academics are banned.
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| Wednesday 30 January 2013 |
Wendy Kaminer
Obama: selling out civil liberties
Obama’s inaugural address confirmed that the left and right agree on one thing: freedom can be curbed in the name of some greater good.
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| Wednesday 23 January 2013 |
Sean Collins
The inauguration of illiberal liberalism
President Obama’s inaugural speech confirmed that he plans to keep waging an elite Culture War against ‘backward’ values.
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| Wednesday 9 January 2013 |
Wendy Kaminer
Gun laws shouldn’t be written by ghosts
Second Amendment rights are important, but the idea that they should never change, even in the light of new facts, is just irrational.
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| Wednesday 9 January 2013 |
Sean Collins
Newtown: ‘a 9/11
for gun control’?
Both liberals and the right responded to the dreadful Sandy Hook massacre by denigrating liberty.
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| Wednesday 9 January 2013 |
Kevin Yuill
Why the Second Amendment still matters
Despite critics labelling it a relic of a bygone age of muskets, the right to bear arms is no anachronism.
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| Thursday 3 January 2013 |
Sean Collins
A bad cliffhanger
The US 'fiscal cliff' talks were depicted as a tense dash to save America, but in truth all the big questions were left out.
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| Wednesday 2 January 2013 |
James Heartfield
When Lincoln and Marx were on the same side
150 years ago, Lancashire cotton workers fought alongside Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery in the US.
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| Friday 21 December 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
In 2013, can we call off the Culture Wars?
This year, there was a decisive shift in the Culture Wars in favour of the ‘illiberal liberals’. The wrong side is winning, in the wrong war.
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| Wednesday 5 December 2012 |
Kevin Yuill
Hounding out
blue-collar hunters
A proposal in California to ban hunting with dogs has turned into a celeb-led bashing of the type of people who hunt.
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