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To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’

Published by Amr F. Hamour

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients based on a variety of identifiable factors, from age to sex to occupation. Data such as these are...

July 6, 2020

Canada, Genetics, Health, Top Stories

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

Published by Lawrence M. Krauss

In his June 9th eulogy for George Floyd, Reverend Al Sharpton said, “What happened to Floyd happens every day in this country, in education, in health services, and in...

July 3, 2020

Diversity Debate, Science / Tech, Top Stories

Affirmative Action in a Multiethnic Nation

Published by Max Hyams

This last week, the California Legislature voted to hold a referendum to repeal Proposition 209 in November. Passed in 1996, Prop 209 banned affirmative action in public contracting, employment,...

July 3, 2020

Diversity, Identity, Politics, Social Policy, Top Stories

Local Farming Can’t Save the Planet

Published by Hidde Boersma and Maarten Boudry

“The world is flat,” proclaimed economist Thomas Friedman in his 2005 book of the same title. And since then, the world has flattened further still. Not only has a...

July 3, 2020

On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry

Published by Peter Toshev

Academics who conduct research on intelligence and human differences, or who comment on it, are being removed from their positions, either as faculty or university administrators, at an accelerating...

July 1, 2020

Education, Science, Science / Tech, Top Stories

Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics

Published by Javier Arcos Hódar

It has been months since the novel coronavirus hit Western countries, and many are now wondering how and when normality will return and what a new normal might look...

July 1, 2020

Biology, COVID-19, Environment, Health, How We Live Next, Science / Tech, Top Stories

The Room Where It Happened—A Review

Published by John Lloyd

A review of The Room Where It Happened—A White House Memoir by John Bolton, Simon and Schuster (June 2020), 592 pages. Donald Trump’s White House is fast approaching the end...

June 30, 2020

Books, Foreign Policy, Politics, Review, Top Stories, World Affairs

Policing in the Anomie Era

Published by Mike Wilson

We bounced along a pitted dirt road on an Indigenous reserve in Northern Ontario. As I leaned on my horn to convince a bored looking, semi-feral stray dog to...

June 30, 2020

Activism, BLM, Crime, Top Stories

July 6, 2020

Free Speech is a Value, not a Right

Free speech is a value, not a right. Understanding this distinction sheds light on the various debates in the...

by Logan Chipkin

July 6, 2020

To Be Useful, Health Data Must Go Deeper Than ‘Black’ and ‘White’

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients based on a variety of identifiable factors, from...

by Amr F. Hamour

July 3, 2020

Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem

In his June 9th eulogy for George Floyd, Reverend Al Sharpton said, “What happened to Floyd happens every day...

by Lawrence M. Krauss

July 3, 2020

Affirmative Action in a Multiethnic Nation

This last week, the California Legislature voted to hold a referendum to repeal Proposition 209 in November. Passed in...

by Max Hyams

July 1, 2020

On Steve Hsu and the Campaign to Thwart Free Inquiry

Academics who conduct research on intelligence and human differences, or who comment on it, are being removed from their...

by Peter Toshev

July 1, 2020

Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics

It has been months since the novel coronavirus hit Western countries, and many are now wondering how and when...

by Javier Arcos Hódar

June 30, 2020

The Room Where It Happened—A Review

A review of The Room Where It Happened—A White House Memoir by John Bolton, Simon and Schuster (June 2020), 592...

by John Lloyd

June 30, 2020

Policing in the Anomie Era

We bounced along a pitted dirt road on an Indigenous reserve in Northern Ontario. As I leaned on my...

by Mike Wilson

June 29, 2020

The New York Times and the Importance of Conclusion Neutrality

Earlier this month, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas wrote a controversial New York Times op-ed arguing that President...

by Max Diamond

June 27, 2020

On Race and Inequality—A Reply to Nathan J. Robinson

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement following the death of George Floyd has plunged us into a...

by Samuel Kronen

June 26, 2020

Is Foster Care Racist?

“We need to abolish the foster care system,” Charity Chandler-Cole, a member of the Los Angeles County Commission for Children...

by Naomi Schaefer Riley

June 26, 2020

The Need for Scientific Caution in the New Space Race

On May 30th, 2020, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from NASA’s facility at Cape Canaveral. Hidden in the roar...

by Michael Shilo DeLay and Anastasia Bendebury

June 26, 2020

Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History

We are watching the era of the new iconoclasm take shape, no longer in the form of the destruction...

by Benjamin Kerstein

June 25, 2020

COVID-19 and the College Football Debate

Why should we have to go to class if we come here to play FOOTBALL, we ain’t come to...

by Daniel McGraw

June 25, 2020

Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear—Or Go Extinct

1. In October 2019, the British climate activist group Extinction Rebellion carried out two weeks of civil disobedience in...

by Michael Shellenberger

June 24, 2020

Rethinking Health Disparities

In the last few decades, the proliferation of diversity, inclusivity, and equity literature throughout the medical profession has become...

by Zachary Robert Caverley

June 22, 2020

The Great Awokening and the Second American Revolution

Statues toppled, buildings renamed, curricula “decolonized,” staff fired. The protests following George Floyd’s killing have emboldened cultural revolutionaries in...

by Eric Kaufmann

June 22, 2020

The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery

It has become a common trope that slavery and the slave trade is responsible for the industrial revolution, if...

by Matthew Lesh

June 22, 2020

For 30 Years, I’ve Tried to Become a Woman. Here’s What I Learned Along the...

I turned 45 this month. I can’t deny that I’m in my middle years. Although I’ve been blessed so...

by Corinna Cohn

June 20, 2020

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back...

High in the Himalayan mountains, Chinese soldiers ambushed Indian troops this week, resulting in a brutal battle on the...

by Cleo Paskal

June 20, 2020

She Who Must Not Be Named

I’m writing a book about gender-identity ideology (if I scribble fast, it should be out in the middle of...

by Helen Joyce

June 20, 2020

Exploring ‘Other Ways of Knowing’: The New Religious Threat to Science...

Following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer last month, an odd pattern has been playing...

by Lenny Pier Ramos

June 19, 2020

The Purity Paradox: How Tolerance and Intolerance Increase at the Same Time

How can intolerance be increasing when Western democracies are demonstrably more tolerant of historically marginalised identities than at any...

by Peter Hughes

June 18, 2020

How Britain’s Feminist Grass Roots Turned the Tide Against Gender Extremists

In the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic and a series of massive protests over racist police brutality in the...

by Erin Perse

Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex

Published by Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen

Universities today bombard students with two contradictory messages about sex, effectively encouraging them to carry a dildo in their pocket, while lugging a fainting couch behind them. On the...

June 17, 2020

Education, Recommended, Sex

Woody Allen’s ‘Apropos of Nothing’—A Review

Published by David Evanier

A Review of Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen, Arcade Publishing (March 2020) 400 pages Rolling Stone has pronounced Woody Allen’s new memoir, Apropos of Nothing, “horrendously ugly.” The...

April 21, 2020

Books, Recommended, Review

The Coming Age of Dispersion

Published by Joel Kotkin

As of this writing, the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic remain uncertain. But one possible consequence is an acceleration of the end of the megacity era. In its...

March 25, 2020

COVID-19, Economics, Health, Politics, Recommended