The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Bradley Campbell
· 16 min read
Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World
A society that respects neither religion nor art cannot be called a civilization.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read
Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
A World Without Animal Farming
Consumption decreases when people abandon animal products for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic converts might become moral converts later.
Spencer Case
· 8 min read
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 14 min read
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
What Can Artificial Intelligence Teach Us About Political Polarization?
Fortunately, there are measures that each of us can take to keep the excesses of dimensionality reduction in check. Unfortunately, they all require a potentially uncomfortable dose of humility.
Jeremie Harris
· 6 min read
The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling the Transgender Movement in Children
Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
Consent Isn’t Everything and Sex Is Not Like Tea
Some of the enjoyments of sex have to do with a reflective enjoyment of the experience.
R. P. Reed and Megan Fritts
· 8 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
Julian Vigo
· 12 min read
Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.
Oliver Whiskard
· 10 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read