Welcome to the West, But Please Don’t Integrate…
The West’s own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 7 min read
Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer
It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.
William Buckner
· 14 min read
Irrational AI-nxiety
Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy.
Edward Clint
· 9 min read
Worry About Piety Contests, Not 'Virtue Signaling'
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
Cameron Harwick
· 7 min read
What if the Industrial Revolution Happened to Rome?
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
Helen Dale
· 8 min read
The Postmodern Misuse of Tolerance
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
Alexis Carre
· 12 min read
The Politics of Science: Why Scientists Might Not Say What the Evidence Supports
The case for deferring to scientific consensus on politically contentious topics is much weaker. This is true because what scientists publicly say may differ from what they privately believe.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
Should We Be Worried About GMOs?
GMOs interact with wider global systems that they could potentially undermine, with terrible consequence.
Simon Beard and Rachel Polfer
· 6 min read
The Case For Moral Doubt
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Scotty Jenkins
· 6 min read
Campus Counsellors and the Politicization of Sexual Assault
What I mean by that is the narrative extolled by university trained feminists that implies assault victims are victims for life and have been irreparably damaged.
Irene Ogrizek
· 9 min read
Are the JFK Conspiracies Slowly Dying?
Browsing responses to the recent release of assassination documents, this is where the best reporting and analysis can be found.
Craig Colgan
· 12 min read
Deliberation Not Boundaries: A Reply to Wessie du Toit
The greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself. In particular, it comes from the sheer volume and chaotic nature of that speech.
Nestor de Buen
· 7 min read
Are Women Really Victims? Four Women Weigh In
Women can be victims. In this world, there are violent, exploitative people willing to use and abuse their fellow human beings.
Quillette
· 9 min read
Beaked Up Birds: A Review of Big Chicken
Agriculture brought with it enormous benefits, including a larger trading network, a greater division of labor, and even some genetic changes that we’re better off with than without.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
The Problem with Public Art
Great cultures of the past were built around grand unifying ideas.
David Lucas
· 8 min read