Will Boisvert

In Why Plato Matters Now, the University of Sheffield philosophy professor considers what the ancient thinker might have to say about free speech, fake news, and populism today. What would Plato think about current anxieties over populist threats to democracy? Plato gives a coruscating analysis in The Republic of how democracy can be subverted by demagogues who lapse into tyranny. First, the demagogue gets voted into power by claiming to be the champion of the people.

Being Goth doesn’t drive teens to suicide; being suicidal drives teens to Goth. The same may be true of transgenderism. by Will Boisvert Today’s youth transgender movement bears a strong resemblance to the Goth subculture of a decade or two ago. Both take root mainly among teens and young adults, both give misfits a way to demonstrate solidarity against mainstream society, and both have a taste for lurid, sexually ambiguous fashions.

by Will Boisvert In Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, progressive thought leader Naomi Klein sees rampant fascism in the resistance to COVID mandates—but reveals the Left’s profound lack of self-awareness. Few things have alarmed the Left recently as much as the populist Right’s resistance to COVID regulations, which to progressives epitomizes epistemic anarchism, disdain for science and social irresponsibility.