Politics and Rationality: On the Uses and Limits of Science
No one’s politics is based on deliberative rationality. And no one’s politics is based on science, of course.
Crispin Sartwell
· 7 min read
We ‘Gender-Critical’ Feminists Pay a Price for Speaking Out. But the Price of Silence is Higher
Many women are starting to realize that silence is no longer an option, because this trend is not going away.
Libby Emmons
· 9 min read
One Small Martian Step for Man…One Giant Leap Toward the Annihilation of All Mankind
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.
Armondo Simón
· 8 min read
Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence
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.
Adam Ellwanger
· 13 min read
Sex Differences in Cognition
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.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
In Mars Co. We Trust: Understanding the Coming Interstellar Corporatocracy
The universe is a big place. To the question of what we want to be, and how we want to express that being, compromise is canceled.
Michael Solana
· 10 min read
Blasting Enlightenment Values Into Martian Orbit
Build an education system that promotes both liberal arts and liberal values.
Cathy Young
· 5 min read
Do They Know It’s Christmas—On Mars?
The answer is obvious: We need to celebrate Christmas twice.
Chris Behrens
· 6 min read
The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright
Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read
PODCAST 68: Clinical psychologist Dr James Cantor Criticises the American Academy of Pediatrics' Guidelines for Treating Trans Children
Dr James Cantor, clinical psychologist and sexologist, talks to Jonathan Kay about his recent peer-reviewed critique of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ guidelines on treating trans children.
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
A Christmas Message from Quillette
In Christian history, Thessalonica is better known for the epistles that Paul the Apostle wrote to members of the city’s community, and which became part of the New Testament.
Quillette
· 5 min read
Our Mission on Mars: Obey the Lessons of Mutiny on the Bounty
Setting aside for the moment the many physical and biological problems that must be overcome to establish a permanent base on Mars, it’s worth considering how one would govern such a remote colony.
Michael Shermer
· 13 min read
Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic
Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.
Bettina Arndt
· 6 min read
The Many Faces of Scientific Fraud
Everyday fudging of experimental data in laboratories cannot exclusively be explained by researchers’ desire to get an intuited result in a better-than-perfect form, as was the case with Mendel, or to distinguish themselves through the accuracy of their measurements, as with Millikan.
Nicolas Chevassus-au-Louis
· 12 min read
'White Christmas' and the Triumphs of the Greatest Generation
Viewed as a romantic comedy, a bromance, or a musical, White Christmas may seem like just a lightweight piece of Hollywood fluff. But considered as a hymn to post-war America, it acquires additional depth.
Kevin Mims
· 11 min read