Its ability to churn out such plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.

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The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.

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My best friend had a psychotic break—our criss-crossing journeys through facts and fictions in thirteen chapters.

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Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with. 

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Jay Anson’s haunted-house yarn was a highly lucrative hoax, but it struck a popular chord amid the financial precarity of 1970s America.

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What Karl Popper’s classic can teach us about the threats facing democracies today.

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The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.

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The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.

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Every generation or so (i.e., roughly every 25 years) a woman (it’s always a woman) writes a book about kinky sex—and a very specific type of kinky sex.

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How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.

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