Jamie Q Roberts shares that his book on the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) was pulled from print by its initial publisher for not “engaging” theory and writes that—in the months since—core IDW and figures played a significant role in the U.S. presidential election.

Matt Johnson writes that the late Christopher Hitchens was not only prescient about the ascendance of right-wing populism in the West but also understood the most potent antidote to it: free expression, pluralism, and universalism. Only by rediscovering these traditions of the Enlightenment can the left revive itself and defeat these noxious political forces.

Kim Kavin argues that women need freedom in the home office—not just in the doctor’s office. She makes the case that the freedom to choose self-employment is just as much a women’s rights issue as abortion and calls on women to reject those who are trying to restrict that freedom.

Anita Bartholomew shares the story of Jason Kilborn, a law professor who unfairly found himself in the crosshairs of his school’s DEI bureaucracy. He, like countless others, found out the hard way that DEI tends to engender manufactured grievance and the very sort of racial animosity that it was supposed to address.

Javier Reyes says it’s time for politicians to do their finally jobs and require AIs to “incorporate”—that is, to have an electronic legal personality. This is needed to establish a model for a harmed party to find the web of companies and joint ventures behind the machine and to pursue accountability in a court of law.

Robert M. Price offers a higher-critical survey of the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism, describing its monotheistic mythology, savior figure story, and dualistic doctrine—all elements that would define newer major world religions.