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How works like the Fihrist comprised the greatest gift of Crusades history

Plus: Biden's malaise?

A flap over a classroom viewing of "Othello" at the University of Michigan raises questions about cultural sensitivity, intolerance, and academic freedom

Countries do have the capacity to learn; that, too, is worth noting ...

Yes, Trump would have shredded the constitution

Thread by @AkivaMCohen: Here's the thing: There's not even the slightest smidgeon of doubt that SB-8 is unconstitutional. There isn't a scintilla of an argument that it can stand under current law. And nobody even ...…

I received my second Facebook jail term this weekend. Why? Because I told the person who wrote the comment that leads this article that I’ve reported their comment for spreading misinformation. Then I committed the crime: I said the comment was stupid. For my crime I’m in Facebook jail, while th...

Malice and misinformation are driving national division.

The Nine Incredible Tricks to Get Your Moral Panic Trending!

This is the midweek edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. This post is part of an ongoing series on the overarching cultural significance of Peloton. The first two pieces in the series can be found

Yes, we are going to talk about Ally Love's Wedding

This is the weekend edition of Culture Study — the newsletter from Anne Helen Petersen, which you can read about here. If you like it and want more like it in your inbox, consider subscribing. This piece is an experiment. I’ve been wanting to write a long feature on the various components of Peloton for more than a year — and have repeatedly found myself intimidated by the scope. Like a lot of deceptively complicated media texts, it deserves a book. But a book of Peloton analysis is not happening. This newsletter-bound serialized analysis is.

Yes, there is a distinct ideology behind "wokeism," "social justice," and other terms that refer to progressive orthodoxy—and it's toxic

John Nolte inadvertently lays bare the narcissism and victimology of modern conservatism.

Now that Tucker Carlson and our other most trusted sources of news and opinion are telling us that “replacement theory” is the real deal—i.e., that rootless, cosmopolitan Democrats are trying to replace light-skinned Americans with dark-skinned immigrants—I’m so disappointed to learn that Donald Trump totally cucked out over the white-nationalist replacement-theory proponents at the Charlottesville […]