Is Sex a Dirty Word?
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Craig Bielert and David C Geary
· 21 min read
Kurds Need A Street: A (Classical) Liberal Case for Kurdistan
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”
Jonah Cohen
· 6 min read
The Brains Trust of Intersectionality
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Internet Infrastructure is the New Battleground for Free Speech
This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses.
Matthew Mott
· 4 min read
Glenn Greenwald is Wrong Again on Charlie Hebdo
Having falsely established that Charlie Hebdo were just picking on Muslims, he can lay the charge of hypocrisy upon anybody that has ever objected to any other speech.
David Paxton
· 8 min read
Why Postmodern Art is Vacant
Yet, modern art is still portrayed as being avant-garde, defying trends, and sticking it to the establishment.
Jason Newman
· 10 min read
How Animal Genes Go into Battle to Dominate Their Offspring
One consequence of these genetic battles is the effect on reproductive compatibility within a species.
A Policy of Censorship More Extreme Than Google
There is no room for nuance, no room for subtlety. Feelings supersede facts. The emotions of the most fragile must be soothed at any cost, even if the truth is a casualty.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Defending Western History From Political Propaganda
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
Genetics, Fear, and the Slippery Slope of Moral Authoritarianism
Many warnings were offered up to us about how well-meaning scientists and policy makers could slip into using genetic information maleficently.
Charleen Adams
· 9 min read
The Case for Psychedelics
Psychedelics are incredible tools whose significance lies in their ability to catalyze the power of the human mind for healing, creativity, and spiritual consciousness.
W. Keith Campbell and Brandon Weiss
· 14 min read
The Google Memo: The Economist On Nothing
This may come as a surprise to those who developed their opinion about it, not by reading the memo itself but by absorbing accounts of it in the popular press.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
Centrism: A Moderate Manifesto
These common complaints might contain more than a kernel of truth, but centrism doesn’t need to be dull or incoherent.
Bo Winegard
· 11 min read
Science, Sin, and Paternalism
The message is loud and clear: sugar is bad, government regulation is good, and now we have the science to prove it.
Matthew Mott
· 5 min read
Scott Adams, Donald Trump and the Ethics of Persuasion
The answer, it should come as no surprise, is that he uses the very same tactics of evasion and persuasion for which he admires the president.
Jake Orthwein
· 11 min read