A Risk Not Worth Taking: An Open Letter to My Colleagues in The Academy
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Brian Boutwell
· 4 min read
Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
Michael Aaron
· 8 min read
Manchester’s Children and the Regressive Left
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 11 min read
Getting Voxed: Charles Murray, Ideology, and the Debate on IQ
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
Paranoid Paleoconservatives
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Jamie Palmer
· 23 min read
Cultural Appropriation Sold Out When It Went Mainstream
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
Robert Seddon
· 6 min read
Censorship, the Authoritarian's Snake Oil
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Sandra Kotta
· 19 min read
Paradoxes of Probability and Other Statistical Strangeness
Nowadays, researchers can access a wealth of software packages that can readily analyse data and output the results of complex statistical tests.
Stephen Woodcock
· 7 min read
What Philosophers Must Learn from the Transracialism Meltdown
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
When Accusations Lose Their Bite
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
“The EU is Essentially a German Empire”: Peter Hitchens on Geopolitics and the Future of Europe
The European Union is essentially therefore a modern avatar of the empire, based on Richard von Kühlmann’s imperial concept of “limited sovereignty.”
Sumantra Maitra
· 9 min read
Inverted Nationalism and Orwellian Patriotism
Does inverted nationalism really influence the elite?
Spencer Case
· 10 min read
Who Will Make Our Coffee in Pret?
When a BBC Question Time audience member asked “Who will make our coffee in Pret?”
Derek Hopper
· 5 min read
Browsing the Tate Bookshop
The Tate Britain shop is large and there are multiple, unimpeachable shelves of books grouped into themes such as technique, art history.
Michael Clegg
· 7 min read