Boycotting the boycotters: The wrong way to oppose BDS
Clamping down on BDS will only fuel its intolerant campaign.
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Recent articles of note
“Not running, but fleeing: With rare exceptions, America’s young are turning their backs on politics,” The Economist
“The green behind California’s Greens,” City Journal, by Steven Malanga
“How your hometown affects your chances of marriage,” New York Times, by David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy
“The new Jews of Harvard’s ...
Riots in Baltimore: A crisis of authority
The instability points to a moral vacuum in America’s inner cities.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Rolling Stone and UVA: More than a failure of journalism
The real problem is the unhinged moral panic about rape on campus.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Selma 50 years on: Why King’s dream still matters
Today’s new racialists are judging people on the colour of their skin.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Why frat boys, even racist ones, should have free speech
Racist views can only be tackled through open debate, not censorship.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Recent articles of note
“In UCLA debate over Jewish student, echoes on campus of old biases,” New York Times, by Adam Nagourney
“The Culture Wars are dead, long live the Culture Wars!” US Intellectual History, by Andrew Hartman
“Hannah Arendt: Thinking versus evil,” Times Higher Education, by Jon Nixon
“Our parties, part one: ...
Netanyahu in Washington: how Bibi eclipsed Barack
His speech stood in stark contrast to the relativism of the modern West.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Jon Stewart, king of snark, abdicates
How the once funny comedian became a viral snark-generator for lazy liberals.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Recent articles of note
“Columbia student: I didn’t rape her,” Daily Beast, by Cathy Young
“Queering agriculture?: On campus, theory is as high as an elephant’s eye,” City Journal, by Heather Macdonald
“Islamism and the left,” Dissent, by Michael Walzer
“Measles: Misinformation gone viral,” Defining Ideas, by Richard A. Epstein
“Don’t be like ...
ABOUT SEAN COLLINS
I write about American current affairs for Spiked, the online magazine. I am a native New Yorker, and I divide my time between New York City and upstate New York.
In addition to articles for Spiked, The Australian and other publications, I contributed an essay, "BDS: Demonizing Israel, Destroying Free Speech," for the book Unsafe Space: The Crisis of Free Speech on Campus (2016). I also wrote a chapter on New York City's economy for the book London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital? (2012).
My writings have been cited in American Conservative, Arts & Letters Daily, the Financial Times, Fox News, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, and the Times of London, among other media.
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