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Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?

by Uri Harris

A few months ago, The Washington Post published an opinion piece by Suzanna Danuta Walters. Its title was: “Why can’t we hate men?” Walters’s byline, printed before the body of the article, read: Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs. As the...

October 11, 2018
comments 52
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Brotopia—Analysis and Review

Published by Sean Welsh

A review of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang. Portfolio (February 2018) 320 pages.  Brotopia: Breaking up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley by Emily...

October 12, 2018
comments 5
Review, Top Stories

Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?

Published by Rosalind Arden

Linda Gottfredson, Professor Emerita at the University of Delaware, has been disinvited from giving a keynote talk at the International Association of Educational and Vocational Guidance meeting in Sweden...

October 12, 2018
comments 12
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Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras

Published by Geoffrey Clarfield

“When you grow up in a country where war is the order of the day, the bullets are flying all around you, it is only normal that once you...

October 11, 2018
comments 7
Canada, History, Human Rights, Top Stories

Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem

Published by Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie

In their new book, The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff argue that a polarisation cycle exists at US universities. First, a progressive professor does...

October 9, 2018
comments 86
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Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings

Published by Gideon Scopes

After weeks of controversy, Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as a justice on the United States Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual assault against him. These allegations deeply divided...

October 8, 2018
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The Devolution of Social Science

Published by John Staddon

This article has two themes: first, how in “soft” science fields, increased specialization has led to fragmentation, incoherence and, ultimately, nonsense. And second, an example of the process: race...

October 7, 2018
comments 89
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Don’t Get Fooled Again: The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism

Published by Murray Bessette

Socialism is having an unprecedented moment in America: opinion polls show its increasing popularity, especially among youths; membership in the Democratic Socialists of America continues to swell; mainstream publications,...

October 6, 2018
comments 112
Economics, Top Stories

When “Believe the Victim” Backfires

Published by Stewart Justman

A few years ago the University of Montana, where I was teaching, found itself at the epicenter of a national crisis of campus rape. Even as the U. S....

October 6, 2018
comments 81
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  • How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life
    How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life
  • Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
    Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
  • Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?
    Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?
  • Brotopia—Analysis and Review
    Brotopia—Analysis and Review
  • Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings
    Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings
  • The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
    The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
  • Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras
    Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras
  • The Devolution of Social Science
    The Devolution of Social Science

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Brotopia—Analysis and Review

Published by Sean Welsh

A review of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang. Portfolio (February 2018) 320 pages.  Brotopia: Breaking up the Boy’s Club of Silicon Valley by Emily...

October 12, 2018
comments 5
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October 13, 2018

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A slogan I hear screamed loudly these days conflates white silence with violence But speak up and stray from...

by Graham Verdon
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Brotopia—Analysis and Review

A review of Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang. Portfolio (February 2018) 320 pages.  Brotopia:...

by Sean Welsh
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October 11, 2018

Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos...

“When you grow up in a country where war is the order of the day, the bullets are flying...

by Geoffrey Clarfield
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October 6, 2018

Don’t Get Fooled Again: The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism

Socialism is having an unprecedented moment in America: opinion polls show its increasing popularity, especially among youths; membership in...

by Murray Bessette
comments 112
October 6, 2018

A New Kind of Economy—An Interview with Andrew Yang

Andrew Yang is a 43-year-old American entrepreneur who is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in 2020. His...

by Peter Clarke
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October 5, 2018

The Virtue of Nationalism—An Internationalist’s Critique

A review of The Virtue of Nationalism by Yoram Hazony. Basic Books (September 2017) 304 pages.  The last 30 years...

by Matt McManus
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October 4, 2018

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To hell with what we learned from the hero of Mockingbird, the preeminent Mr. Finch Believe Women dictates Tom’s...

by Graham Verdon
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October 4, 2018

On the Fallibility of Memory and the Importance of Evidence

As we await the vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the results of the ongoing FBI investigation, America is...

by Tyler Watkins
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October 3, 2018

A Liberal’s Plea for a Moderate Immigration Policy

Recently, my family was mentioned in an article in the Washington Post Magazine about our dear Salvadoran friends, and...

by Lynette Craig
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September 30, 2018

The Purity Spiral of Canada’s Music Industry

In 2015, the Canadian music world erupted in controversy when a Calgary post-punk band named Viet Cong came to...

by Neil Gray
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September 28, 2018

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Some say the sexes are biologically the same, like when you’re in the workforce or playing sports and games...

by Graham Verdon
September 27, 2018

The Soviets and the JFK Conspiracy Theorists

Editor’s Note: This article was adapted from Fred Litwin’s new book, I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak. For...

by Fred Litwin
September 26, 2018

Effective vs. Pathological Altruism

The effective altruism movement grew out of an understanding that sometimes charitable giving doesn’t achieve its desired effects. Even...

by Jonny Anomaly
September 25, 2018

How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life

In early October, 2017, following the emergence of the Harvey Weinstein allegations, a writer and activist living in Brooklyn...

by Stephen Elliott
September 24, 2018

Amidst the YouTube Junkies of MythCon, I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism

Late Saturday afternoon, police ordered the evacuation of the historic Pabst Theater in downtown Milwaukee because of a bomb...

by Jonathan Kay
September 24, 2018

Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex

It is not so much the cause of feminism to provide a shining walkway for a female leader, as…...

by Renee Gerlich
September 23, 2018

The Fragility of the Liberal World Order

A review of The Jungle Grows Back: America and our Imperiled World by Robert Kagan. Knopf (September 2018) 192 pages. In...

by Doug Stokes
September 22, 2018

Anthony Bourdain vs. the Tyranny of Wellness

In Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain wrote: “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” Bourdain encouraged...

by Jenai Engelhard
September 22, 2018

Narrow Roads of Bozo Land: How We Came to Be Governed by Online Mobs

We all know the routine: an academic publishes some data that are incompatible with left-wing ideology, or maybe even...

by Adam Perkins
September 21, 2018

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On social so many so-called progressives will loudly proclaim their virtue Then comes the next tweet, a shocking message,...

by Graham Verdon
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Another week, another defenestration. This time it’s Ian Buruma, forced to resign his post as editor of the New York Review of Books after publishing an essay written by...

September 21, 2018
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