Cathy Young
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Past articles by Cathy:
Year One of the Ukraine War: The Big Lessons and Questions
Plus: With no victories to report, Putin fulminates about Western perfidy, supposed Ukrainian Nazis, and a gender-neutral God → Read More
The Battle Over Diversity Training
Many diversity, equity and inclusion programs are toxic. The laws trying to curb them are worse. → Read More
The Death of Dugina
What we know (and don’t yet know) about the killing of the war propagandist daughter of the ultranationalist Russian Aleksandr Dugin. → Read More
Sicknick Trutherism Redux
The Capitol Police officer’s death one day after Jan. 6th still brings out the conspiracy nuts and the Trump defenders desperate for a distraction. → Read More
Jordan Peterson’s Pro-Putin Punditry
The Canadian pop-psychologist’s descent into tired and predictable right-wing rhetoric continues apace. → Read More
About That ‘National Conservatism’ Statement
The troubling implications of the new NatCon manifesto. → Read More
Has the Tide Really Turned in Ukraine?
(Photo by Sergey Bobok / AFP / Getty)In the past month or so, the dominant Ukraine narrative in the media has shifted from “heroic Ukrainians repelling a mismanaged Russian invasion” to “badly outgunned Ukrainians unable to hold back Russian advances in the East” (resulting in much gloating from the likes of Glenn Greenwald). While commentators have stressed that Russian war goals have shrunk… → Read More
Biden Hits The Right Note
In the aftermath of tragedy and terror in Buffalo, here’s something that has not received much attention: a genuinely presidential speech by Joe Biden on his visit to the city. I know Biden is not a charismatic leader. But on occasions that call for a simple show of humanity, decency and warmth, he can be genuinely moving. And so he was in Buffalo. He spoke simply and beautifully about the… → Read More
The Replacement Theory
Buffalo mass shooter/Twitter screengrab On Saturday, a horrific act of terrorism was committed in Buffalo, New York. An 18-year-old gunman, Payton S. Gendron, is charged with opening fire on supermarket shoppers in a predominantly black neighborhood, killing 10 and wounding three. (All but two of the victims were black.) Gendron, who left a record of careful planning right down to outfitting… → Read More
The Redpill Grifter Who Became an Anti-Ukraine Propagandist
And the wacko tale of his supposed murder. → Read More
The Messy Politics of Teaching Gender
How the left and the right can find sanity. → Read More
What Really Happened in Ukraine in 2014—and Since Then
A close look at the lies and distortions from Russia apologists and propagandists about the roots of the Ukraine war. → Read More
The Bucha Atrocities and the Kremlin Apologists
Commentators suffering from Ukraine Derangement Syndrome are distorting and distracting from the horrible facts. → Read More
Freedom and Democracy in Russia, Then and Now
Pavel Litvinov—a Soviet dissident who was exiled to Siberia for his role in the 1968 Red Square demonstration—discusses Putin’s Ukraine invasion. → Read More
Digging Into Russia’s Latest Charge of ‘Ukrainian Nazis’
Context and contrition. → Read More
Blaming the Ukraine Invasion on ... the Gays?
How the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, a Putin enabler, spins the war. → Read More
Ayn Rand in Our Day
The mixed literary, philosophical, and political legacy of the author of ‘The Fountainhead’ and ‘Atlas Shrugged,’ forty years after her death. → Read More
What Cancel Culture Is—and Isn’t
Don’t underestimate the chilling effect. → Read More
The ‘We’re Just as Bad as Russia’ Crowd
No, Glenn Greenwald and Sohrab Ahmari: Censorship in the U.S. is not comparable to what goes on in Putin’s Russia. → Read More
The Trouble with Biden’s Answer on China
The Bulwark is a news network launched in 2018 dedicated to providing political analysis and reporting free from the constraints of partisan loyalties or tribal prejudices. → Read More