A Tale of Two Europes
After a reported 23 sexual assaults and four rapes, festival organizers decided to cancel next year’s event, citing that “Certain men… apparently cannot behave.”
Michael Aaron
· 9 min read
In Defence of Anonymity
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Study Philosophy to Improve Your Thinking — A Case of False Advertising?
“That the discipline of philosophy trains students in highly transferable skills is evidenced by the fact that philosophy majors perform exceptionally well on the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.”
Neven Sesardic
· 13 min read
Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia, and the Redefinition of Sex
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read
Scepticism About White Privilege
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
Confessions of a Hello Kitty Killer — The Pernicious Effects of Cuteness
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
Michael Brandow
· 18 min read
Social Justice: The End of Moral Certainty
History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
Thomas Varnke
· 8 min read
Vox Goes Junk — No Good, That's a Bit Intelligent Progress
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
Richard Haier
· 6 min read
Are Liberals Dying Out?
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
Hrishikesh Joshi, Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
Beauty, Equality, and the Problem of Calling Everything Sexist
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
Steven C Munson
· 11 min read
Who's Afraid of Jordan Peterson?
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
Daniel Burston
· 15 min read
No Voice at Vox — Sense and Nonsense on Discussing IQ and Race
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
Richard Haier
· 7 min read
A Risk Not Worth Taking — An Open Letter to 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