A World Without Animal Farming
Consumption decreases when people abandon animal products for aesthetic reasons, and aesthetic converts might become moral converts later.
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
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.
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The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling Trans Ideology 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.
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.
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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.
Representation and the Communitarianisation of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.
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.
Is Sociogenomics Racist?
Those scientists who want to draw attention to the racial bias in genetic research but who don’t want to acknowledge the scientific validity of race are in a tricky position.
Keeping It Casual
Girls are taught that sex without love is a meaningless experience, boys that, as meaningless experiences go, it’s a pretty damn good one.
Moral Pollution in Place of Reasoned Critique
They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong.