In the 1980s, hardcore punk warned of existential threats clotting on the horizon, prescient like sci-fi, loud like an alarm. Nonstop war. Ecological peril. The unresolved legacy of colonialism. The ...

Two years ago, Straw Man Army, a DIY post-punk duo from New York, released their album SOS, and it impressed the hell out of me. Now, Straw Man Army have announced plans to drop a new LP called ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. There are very few things in politics more attractive than a straw man. You can blame problems on them, cast them as ...

No serious economist predicted that the levies would ‘immediately crash the economy’ or ‘ignite runaway inflation.’ ...

I don’t mean to pick on Dargan Pete again, but his Jan. 15 column is a classic example of the “straw man” logical fallacy. For those readers who didn’t have a secondary school English class unit on ...

When students pass through Harvard Yard on their morning commutes this week, they’ll see a new visitor sitting next to the John Harvard statue: a man in a suit, his legs crossed and his body composed ...

The conservative movement has a lot of beliefs that are at odds with consensus positions within economics, social sciences in general, and even the physical sciences. Those few conservatives who who ...

When Seattle outlawed single-use plastic straws in September 2017, the decision drew snickers from spectators as the latest, silliest example of nanny state excess—and one that could happen only in ...

The world according to Yascha Mounk is a bleak place: In the stranglehold of a new ideology, contemporary society has abandoned the liberal tenets that once guided it, in favor of race-based ...