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
The Trouble with Technocracy
Elon Musk offers a good example of how technocrats don’t always get it right, and why trusting them with the world’s progress is risky.
Lyle Broom
· 8 min read
“Tired, Old Myths:” The New Republic Slanders Jung
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart
· 5 min read
Behind the Mask: Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
A Different Kind of Privilege
The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life.
Hunter Baker
· 5 min read
Communicating Science in an Era of Post-Truth
The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science.
Ryan Glaubke
· 8 min read
Why Sam Harris—Not Ezra Klein—Is the One Making Space for People of Colour
Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate
Jamil Jivani
· 13 min read
The Munk Debate and the Perils of Tribalism
Tribalism isn’t a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine who’s in which group
Uri Harris
· 6 min read
In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW
John Nerst suggests that what is actually at issue is whether the discussion of the racial IQ gap is a matter of science or of politics.
Jacob Falkovich
· 13 min read
Why Can’t a Woman be More Like a Man?
For those who believe that gender is a social construct, and there are no differences between men and women’s brains, this paper is something of a reality check.
Toby Young
· 11 min read
Jordan Peterson and the Failure of the Left
The hyperbolic uniformity of the leftist attack on Peterson is emblematic of the growing tendency to reduce left-of-center thought to the status of a rigidly simplistic ideology.
Carol Horton
· 10 min read