Joe Biden’s philosophy of “justice” is wholly unconvincing. He is given to lofty pronouncements about justice, even as his policies undermine it. On racial matters, for example, he is not so much eliminating injustices as proposing new ones under the…

I The Zionist social critic Max Nordau began his 1916 treatise Die Biologie der Ethik with a vivid recapitulation of a pioneering animal psychology experiment conducted by the zoologist Karl Möbius, wherein a carnivorous pike and a terrified tench were…

The Danish anthropologist Knud Rasmussen and his Greenlandic Inuit companions Miteq and Arnarulunguaq embarked on the Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–24) in order to “attack the great primary problem of the origin of the Eskimo race,” an immense project that required…

Dear Matthew, I realize that I don’t put pen to paper often when communicating with you, but I think now is a good time to do so again. You recall my last missive when you started your first day at…

Some weeks back I made a decision: I would buy no new bottles of liquor for as long as possible. My reason was not anxiety about my weight or a sudden conversion to teetotalism. No, I had simply grown tired…