What Makes a 'Self-Hating' Muslim?
Wajahat Ali’s crime is that by mere association with a Jewish group, he was tarred by important sections of the Islamic community as a traitor.
Tanveer Ahmed
· 7 min read
Trans Activism's Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection
A third problem with the belief that parental rejection is the norm is that it makes for bad policy.
Lisa Marchiano
· 13 min read
The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation
The transhumanist perspective insists that humans have a distinctly separate mind and body, and that what happens to one need not affect the other.
Libby Emmons
· 10 min read
Jordan Peterson Rallies Portlandia’s Dissidents
Inside, Mr. Peterson caught glimpses of the protest on a mobile phone while waiting backstage. “These are the brave masked people?
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
Beware of Root Causes
Consider this passage from a paper advocating for ‘root cause analysis’ when attempting to understand and solve large-scale social problems.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
Notes From an Academic Paper Mill
Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so.
Tammy Sheeran
· 8 min read
Why Women Don't Code
Those of us who disagree with current diversity efforts need to speak up and share our honest opinions, even if doing so puts us at risk.
Stuart Reges
· 18 min read
The Birth of the Narcissism Revolution
The Human Potential Movement had posed the Western self a question: if God is inside all of us, then doesn’t it naturally follow that we are all Gods?
Will Storr
· 6 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Thomas Clements
· 6 min read
The Tragedy of Australian Education
The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education.
Greg Ashman
· 13 min read
Giving the Devil His Due: Why Freedom of Inquiry in Science and Politics is Inviolable
Michael Shermer
· 14 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
At this Portland Bakery, White Guilt Poisons the Batter
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Andy Ngo
· 15 min read
The High Price of Stale Grievances
Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
Coleman Hughes
· 14 min read