Rolling Stone and the myth of a rape epidemic
Rolling Stone’s rape hoax speaks to a new hysteria on US campuses.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Recent articles of note
“The microaggression farce,” City Journal, by Heather Macdonald
“Who will save the Democratic Party from itself?” New York Times, by Thomas Edsall
“As Sharpton rose, so did his his unpaid taxes,” New York Times, by Russ Buettner
“Is challenging ‘rape culture’ claims an idea too dangerous for university students?” Reason, ...
After Ferguson: no, the US is not “congenitally racist”
The shooting was terrible. But so is the fatalism of much of the response.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Recent articles of note
“The demise of the white Democratic voter,” New York Times, by Thomas Edsall
“Liberals are killing the liberal arts,” Wall Street Journal, by Harvey Silvergate
“Julia lost,” National Review, by Kevin Williamson
“25 years after the wall fell, challenges remain,” Real Clear Politics, by Cathy Young
“America’s long holiday: ...
The Democrats are running on empty
The US midterms exposed the Obama administration’s utter exhaustion.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Berkeley vs Bill: FSM turns in its grave
After the Bill Maher debacle, Berkeley needs a new Free Speech Movement.
Read my spiked article in full here.
Recent articles of note
“An election about rejection,” Washington Post, by Dan Balz
“Why partyism is wrong,” New York Times, by David Brooks
“Hussman: I think the stock market is crashing,” Business Insider, by Henry Blodget
“Why middle-class Americans can’t afford to live in liberal cities,” The Atlantic, by Derek Thompson
“The climate change ...
The tyranny of the new secular priesthood
Joel Kotkin nails the anti-masses Clerisy that now dominates the US.
Read my review of Kotkin’s The New Class Conflict, in the spiked review of books, here.
Recent articles of note
“Why the Ukraine crisis is the West’s fault: The liberal delusions that provoked Putin,” Foreign Affairs, by John Mearsheimer
“America’s dangerous aversion to conflict,” Wall Street Journal, by Robert Kagan
“It’s still not the end of history,” The Atlantic, by Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee
“Peter Thiel disagrees with ...
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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