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Why Quebec Isn’t Interested in Anglo Lectures About Cultural Appropriation

What does Quebec want? It’s a question that has haunted the rest of Canada for decades—beginning with the birth of modern Québécois nationalism in the 1960s. The country’s English-speaking...

January 17, 2019

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Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept

Published by Patrick Lee Miller

Dignity, recognition, esteem, respect, and the resentment that arises when they are not accorded—these are the themes of Francis Fukuyama’s new book. Like many political commentators, he was surprised...

January 17, 2019

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Review, Top Stories

Baizuo Lessons

Published by J. Arthur Bloom

It has become increasingly common in recent years for universities to contract out their international recruitment efforts to private companies. These companies also often provide a pre-college set of...

January 17, 2019

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Education, Top Stories

On the Value of Truth

Published by Matt McManus

Many claim that we live in a “post-truth” era. Trust in major civic and political institutions is rapidly declining. People on all sides of the political spectrum dismiss the...

January 16, 2019

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Philosophy, Top Stories

January 17, 2019

Francis Fukuyama’s Master Concept

Dignity, recognition, esteem, respect, and the resentment that arises when they are not accorded—these are the themes of Francis...

by Patrick Lee Miller

comments 10

January 17, 2019

Headline Rhymes

I saw an ad from Gillette Said barbecue wasn’t correct I’d wager a bet More food’s under threat And...

by Graham Verdon

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January 17, 2019

Baizuo Lessons

It has become increasingly common in recent years for universities to contract out their international recruitment efforts to private...

by J. Arthur Bloom

comments 8

January 16, 2019

On the Value of Truth

Many claim that we live in a “post-truth” era. Trust in major civic and political institutions is rapidly declining....

by Matt McManus

comments 34

January 16, 2019

Tiers of Pride and Shame

On December 9, in the small hours of the morning, a drunk Columbia undergraduate student named Julian von Abele...

by Coleman Hughes

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January 14, 2019

“Jihadists”—A Review

Jihadists (dir. François Margolin and Lemine Ould Salem, Cinema Libre Studio 2018, 75m) Some years ago, when assessments of the...

by Robin Simcox

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January 12, 2019

Agnès Bun’s Invincible Summer

Meeting Agence France-Presse photojournalist Agnès Bun is a disarming experience. She looks younger than her age, but her youthful...

by Joe Hefferon

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January 11, 2019

In Praise of Boredom, Again

In their book The Coddling of the American Mind Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff wonder where it all went...

by Caroline ffiske

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January 11, 2019

Is Western Civilization a Thing?

This is part two of a four-part series on the classics. Part three will be published tomorrow. Is Western...

by James Kierstead

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January 10, 2019

The Future of Our Ancient Past

This is part one of a four part series on the Classics. Part two will be published tomorrow. Australian...

by James Kierstead

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January 9, 2019

Is Religious Belief in Decline?

On January 8, 1697, 20-year-old Thomas Aikenhead was hanged for blasphemy on the Gallowlee execution ground in Edinburgh. Two...

by Matt Johnson

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January 9, 2019

The Posthumous #MeToo-ing of J. D. Salinger

The first day of this year would have been the 100th birthday of J.D. Salinger, the American writer whose...

by Cathy Young

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January 9, 2019

Patreon Games

On December 6, crowdfunding service Patreon removed the account of popular YouTuber Carl Benjamin, who is better known by...

by Uri Harris

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January 8, 2019

Thoughtcrime and Punishment: A Year Of Shunning and Law Suits at a Canadian...

In late 2017, I found myself at the centre of a controversy at Wilfrid Laurier University, where I was...

by Lindsay Shepherd

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January 7, 2019

Headline Rhymes

So the US gov’s kinda shut As leaders play with their nuts Like squirrels playing chicken In an act...

by Graham Verdon

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January 7, 2019

60 Years On: Reflections on the Revolution in Cuba

Sixty years ago, as thousands of Cubans celebrated the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s regime, an atmosphere of hype and...

by Jorge C. Carrasco

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January 6, 2019

Genes, Environment, and Luck: What We Can and Cannot Control

Social justice activists have issued a challenge to “check your white privilege.” Inasmuch as I oppose the inherent racism...

by Michael Shermer

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January 6, 2019

Malaysia’s Struggle to Preserve Religious Pluralism

For observers of contemporary Malaysia, much has been written about the tropical nation’s creeping Islamization. To define this more...

by Imran Shamsunahar

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January 5, 2019

How the Self-Esteem Myth Has Damaged Society and Us—An Interview with Will Storr

Will Storr is an award-winning journalist and novelist. His work has appeared in outlets such as the Guardian, the...

by Clay Routledge

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January 4, 2019

Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency

It was a random flip through an old family binder that changed the course of Selina Brudnicki’s career. Brudnicki’s...

by Amitha Kalaichandran

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Must Reads, Top 10 of 2018

PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet

This is a story about the question of who holds power over what we can say, hear, watch and read on the internet—an increasingly urgent issue that many ordinary...

Art, Education, Features, Interview, Must Reads, Top 10 of 2018

Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World

I discovered Camille Paglia’s work when I was pursuing my undergraduate arts education at The University of Adelaide, South Australia, in the early 2000s. I was deeply disillusioned with...

Education, Features, Must Reads, Social Science, Top 10 of 2018

The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond

Editor’s note: For the past year scholars James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian have sent fake papers to various academic journals which they describe as specialising in activism...

Top 10 of 2018, Top Stories

Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole

In the highly controversial area of human intelligence, the ‘Greater Male Variability Hypothesis’ (GMVH) asserts that there are more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women. Darwin’s...

Economics, Top 10 of 2018, Top Stories

Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap

There is arguably no racial disparity more striking than the wealth gap. While the median white household earns just 65 percent more income than its black counterpart, its net...

Top 10 of 2018, Top Stories

I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me

I drive food delivery for an online app to make rent and support myself and my young family. This is my new life. I once had a well paid...

Tiers of Pride and Shame

Published by Coleman Hughes

On December 9, in the small hours of the morning, a drunk Columbia undergraduate student named Julian von Abele was filmed outside the campus’s main library delivering a passionate...

January 16, 2019

comments 112

Features, Recommended, Top Stories

Feminism’s Dependency Trap

Published by Marilyn Simon

Reading the news stories about #MeToo and sexual harassment, and the barrage of social media posts that accompanied these headlines, I became saddened but also increasingly frustrated. It wasn’t...

December 20, 2018

Feminism, Politics, recent, Recommended

The Children of the Revolution

Published by James David Banker

“Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart,” wrote James Baldwin, “for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” This observation has been confirmed many times...

December 18, 2018

Asia, Conformism, History, Politics, recent, Recommended