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The Year of Elections

An unprecedented number of elections took place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America this year. Their results suggest that prospects for democracy are mixed.

Imran Shamsunahar

9 Dec 2024 · 18 min read

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Lessons from a Teachers-College Battle Over Free Speech and ‘Decolonization’

University of Western Ontario instructors spent months denouncing an outspoken education student who’d asked awkward questions about Indigenous reconciliation—until a UWO tribunal concluded they’d violated her rights.

Jonathan Kay

29 Nov 2024 · 24 min read

Laura Helmuth is a middle aged white woman in a suit with long grey-blonde hair.

An Unscientific American

Editor-in-chief Laura Helmuth’s departure from ‘Scientific American’ last week is an object lesson in the dangers of mixing facts and ideology.

Michael Shermer

21 Nov 2024 · 12 min read

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The Centre Must Rise

No centrist who understands the current moment has ever truly laid out their case to the Democratic Party base in the context of a serious political campaign. It’s time to change that.

Jack Despain Zhou

13 Nov 2024 · 8 min read

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Are Board Gender Quotas a Good Idea?

The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create.

Silvia G. Poratelli

9 Dec 2024 · 8 min read

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Corporate Cancellations

Josh Bornstein appears to view the world as a good Left/bad Right binary. This assumption limits both his diagnosis of the problem and the creativity of his solutions.