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Marx Deserves Better Critics

Published by Ben Burgis

The most shocking moment of the Žižek-Peterson debate occurred during the first five minutes. In Jordan Peterson’s opening statement, he mentioned that he’d re-read The Communist Manifesto in preparation...

April 24, 2019

comments 215

Philosophy, Politics, Top Stories

The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy

Published by Tristan Rogers

It is no secret that conservative political views are underrepresented in the academy. In Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University, John A. Shields and Joshua...

April 23, 2019

comments 60

Education, Philosophy, Top Stories

Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism

Published by Paulina Neuding

Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone...

April 23, 2019

comments 120

Top Stories

Denmark’s Blaspheming Mother

Published by Andy Ngo

“This is a nightmare. We’re in shock,” Jaleh Tavakoli says. Last month, the 36-year-old Iranian-Danish critic of Islam received notification from Danish social services that she is no longer...

April 22, 2019

comments 84

Top Stories

Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars

Published by Sumantra Maitra

A review of The Case For Trump by Victor Davis Hanson. Basic Books, Hard Cover (March 2019). “I too grew up, and still live, outside a small town in...

April 22, 2019

comments 109

Books, Politics, Review, Top Stories

Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story?

Published by Cathy Young

In recent and even not-so-recent years, the quest for gender balance in science and technology has taken some troubling turns—from the collection of male scalps over trifling offenses (such...

April 22, 2019

comments 93

Top Stories

Secular Humanism is Not a Religion

Published by Jerry A. Coyne

These days you can dismiss anything you don’t like by calling it “a religion.” Science, for instance, has been deemed essentially religious, despite the huge difference between a method...

April 22, 2019

comments 196

Religion, Top Stories

Why We Should Read Nietzsche

Published by Matt McManus

In Ecce Homo, the autobiographical self-examination written shortly before his descent into madness on the streets of Turin in 1889, Nietzsche cheekily opined that he was a “destiny.” It...

April 22, 2019

comments 64

Top Stories

Poetry, recent, Satire

Headline Rhymes

We rightly imagine the pain Of kids separated at our borders But tend to ignore the same Happening in other corners I’m talking, of course Of the halls of...

Philosophy, recent

The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats

Several Western countries have seen a surge in “populist” parties, leaders, and policies in recent years. This surge has elicited a forceful response from traditionally dominant elites. The situation...

recent, Religion, Review

Keep Calm and Hail Satan

On its surface Hail Satan?, directed by punctuation enthusiast Penny Lane (Nuts!) and distributed by Magnolia Pictures (Man on Wire, Capturing the Friedmans), is a straightforward if openly sympathetic report on...

Philosophy, recent

Why Everyone Values Freedom

On March 28, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “Medicare for All Is about Freedom.” This may strike some viewers as an abuse of language....

Media, Politics, recent

Is the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Politically Diverse?

Earlier this month, popular author and podcaster Sam Harris tweeted out a graph titled, “A Visual Breakdown of Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) Positions.” The graph purports to compare the...

Hypothesis, recent, Science

Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

Six months ago CERN hosted a workshop on “High Energy Theory and Gender.” Nearly all the contributors to this and previous workshops on the same topic endorsed the view...

April 25, 2019

Teenage Climate-Change Protestors Have No Idea What They’re Protesting

The Extinction Rebellion, which is the umbrella term for Britain’s most recent large-scale climate-change protests, is said to have...

by Felix Kirby

comments 26

April 24, 2019

The Impassable Road to Redemption

Oops! That page can’t be found. This is what I find when I click on the author link that...

by Clint Margrave

comments 32

April 24, 2019

Marx Deserves Better Critics

The most shocking moment of the Žižek-Peterson debate occurred during the first five minutes. In Jordan Peterson’s opening statement,...

by Ben Burgis

comments 215

April 23, 2019

The Dearth of Conservatives in Academic Philosophy

It is no secret that conservative political views are underrepresented in the academy. In Passing on the Right: Conservative...

by Tristan Rogers

comments 60

April 22, 2019

Timely Return to Battle for a Veteran of the Culture Wars

A review of The Case For Trump by Victor Davis Hanson. Basic Books, Hard Cover (March 2019). “I too...

by Sumantra Maitra

comments 109

April 22, 2019

Secular Humanism is Not a Religion

These days you can dismiss anything you don’t like by calling it “a religion.” Science, for instance, has been...

by Jerry A. Coyne

comments 196

April 21, 2019

The Twilight of Liberalism?

The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man...

by Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard

comments 145

April 21, 2019

Headline Rhymes

We rightly imagine the pain Of kids separated at our borders But tend to ignore the same Happening in...

by Graham Verdon

comments 3

April 19, 2019

Cowardice at Columbia

On Thursday, April 11, shortly after 11pm, a black Columbia student named Alexander McNab walked through the gates of...

by Coleman Hughes

comments 214

April 19, 2019

How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia...

It’s been a year since Atlantic magazine hired, then abruptly fired, conservative writer Kevin Williamson. Shortly after the story...

by Jonathan Kay

comments 38

April 19, 2019

The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats

Several Western countries have seen a surge in “populist” parties, leaders, and policies in recent years. This surge has...

by Jakob Heidbrink

comments 35

April 19, 2019

George Faludy: Hungarian Poet and Hero for Our Times

Had the poet George Faludy not written in his native Hungarian—arguably the most impenetrable of European languages—he would, as...

by Robin Ashenden

comments 13

April 18, 2019

Keep Calm and Hail Satan

On its surface Hail Satan?, directed by punctuation enthusiast Penny Lane (Nuts!) and distributed by Magnolia Pictures (Man on Wire, Capturing...

by Blake M. Edwards

comments 70

April 17, 2019

Why Everyone Values Freedom

On March 28, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “Medicare for All Is about Freedom.”...

by Ben Burgis and Matt McManus

comments 150

April 17, 2019

Is the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Politically Diverse?

Earlier this month, popular author and podcaster Sam Harris tweeted out a graph titled, “A Visual Breakdown of Intellectual...

by Uri Harris

comments 280

April 16, 2019

Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

Six months ago CERN hosted a workshop on “High Energy Theory and Gender.” Nearly all the contributors to this...

by Alessandro Strumia

comments 197

April 16, 2019

A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom

What happens when university students call on authority figures to censor students or staff at institutions of higher education?...

by Claire Lehmann

comments 95

April 16, 2019

Divorce and the ‘Silver Bullet’

Divorce is almost always an ugly and painful experience. But for parents with children, there are additional heart-rending realities...

by James C. Coren

comments 138

April 15, 2019

Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars

On April 10, 2019, an international team of scientists from dozens of research institutions involved in the Event Horizon...

by Sebastian Cesario

comments 54

April 15, 2019

Has the Postmodern Revolution Come Full Circle?

While discussions about the philosophical foundations of judgements of right and wrong are often framed in terms of rational...

by Colin Turfus

comments 85

A College President Stands Up for Academic Freedom

Published by Claire Lehmann

What happens when university students call on authority figures to censor students or staff at institutions of higher education? At Yale such students have been awarded prizes, at the University...

April 16, 2019

comments 95

Must Reads, Recommended

Divorce and the ‘Silver Bullet’

Published by James C. Coren

Divorce is almost always an ugly and painful experience. But for parents with children, there are additional heart-rending realities to confront. No loving parent wants to be absent for...

April 16, 2019

comments 138

Law, Recommended

The End of Aspiration

Published by Joel Kotkin

Since the end of the Second World War, middle- and working-class people across the Western world have sought out—and, more often than not, achieved—their aspirations. These usually included a...

April 10, 2019

Economics, Must Reads, Recommended