This week’s articles of note
“What is a good life?” The New York Review of Books, by Ronald Dworkin
“The baby butcher: pro-choice absolutism and a grisly abortion scandal in Philadelphia,” Slate, by William Saletan
“Back to full employment,” Boston Review, by Robert Pollin
“Real men find real utopias,” Dissent, by Russell Jacoby [Review ...
Naomi Klein, reactionary
This Naomi Klein talk is so crass, wrong and bad, it’s ...
Brendan O’Neill debating over-population in the New York Times
In his “Dot Earth” blog for the New York Times, journalist Andrew Revkin yesterday wrote about his recent correspondence with spiked editor Brendan O’Neill on the issue of over-population. It’s brief, but a great read nonetheless. The post is called “Deconstructing a bestiary of Malthusian ‘miserabilists'”, and Revkin quotes O’Neill as saying:
An NGO ...
MLK Day
Remembering Martin Luther King on his Day. Remarkable man.
This video is of King speaking in Montgomery, Alabama in March 1965. It reminds us of one of his great talents: his oration. Such poetry in his powerful words, such passion, and ...
Observations on Obama’s speech at the Tucson memorial service
Praise has been heaped on President Obama for his speech at the Tucson memorial service last Wednesday, from both the right (“terrific” according to John McCain) and the left (“magic” wrote Gail Collins). If you missed it, you can watch the video here, or read the text here.
For the ...
This week’s articles of note
“Why Chinese mothers are superior,” Wall Street Journal, by Amy Chua
“Social animal: how the new sciences of human nature can help make sense of a life,” The New Yorker, by David Brooks
“Got dough?: public school reform in the age of venture philanthropy,” Dissent, by Joanne Barkan
“Population 7 billion,” National Geographic, ...
Palin and British wishful-thinking
The word on this side of the pond is that some Brits are filled with glee from “news” stories like this one in the Guardian (“Sarah Palin hit by fallout from Arizona shooting spree”), which predict that the Arizona shootings will result in the demise of Sarah Palin. I believe these Brits are misinformed, and as guilty as the liberal commentators over ...
Most Americans believe Tucson shooting unrelated to rhetoric
Many liberal commentators have put forward that heated rhetoric and the political “climate” were important factors that explain Jared Loughner’s shootings in Tucson, Arizona on the weekend. Well, a majority of Americans don’t agree.
According to a CBS News poll out today, 57 percent of people said the harsh political tone had nothing to with the Arizona ...
Falsely accusing the Tea Party of murder
Liberal commentators’ rush to blame the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords on heated political rhetoric exposes their censoriousness and intolerance.
Read my spiked article in full here.
This week’s articles of note
“The rise of the new global elite,” The Atlantic, by Chrystia Freeland
“The man who spilled the beans,” Vanity Fair, by Sarah Ellison [On Julian Assange and collaborating newspapers]
“Cyberspace when you’re dead,” The New York Times Magazine, by Rob Walker
“A question of character,” Boston Review, by David M. ...
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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