Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?” Fallon celebrated the notion that white men are losing their prominence in contemporary American literature and that the best books being published in America
If courage had a face, it would be a slightly overweight, pasty British multi-millionaire drinking a pint.
Live your own life, worry about your own problems, and let others worry about theirs.
Armando Simón, forensic psychologist and science writer, talks to Jonathan Kay about why it would be a mistake to try and put a man on Mars. Simón recently set out the case against a manned space flight to Mars in Quillette.
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
The best cure for progress shame is a rationally optimistic attitude with which we can then push civilisation further forward.
Second Wave feminists didn’t care very much about being nice to those outside of their movement.
No one’s politics is based on deliberative rationality. And no one’s politics is based on science, of course.
Many women are starting to realize that silence is no longer an option, because this trend is not going away.
It is well known by now that, at some point, Mars had a lot of water on its surface, not just an isolated lake or two. There is strong evidence of now-dry rivers and deltas.
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
There is also a wide range of literature regarding sex differences in interest, which is also complicated, and which may explain a larger portion of the sex discrepancy in STEM careers.