‘Girls Need Female Role Models’ and Other Bromides
We all need role models. Role models can do wonders to our lives. But, please, let’s choose them for their qualities—not their gender.
Elena Shalneva
· 6 min read
Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?
The truth is there is no epidemic of transgender murders. The recorded transgender murder rate is 1/3 or less of the overall murder rate for all American citizens and legal residents.
Wilfred Reilly
· 7 min read
On Gender, Blurring the Line Between Dogma and Farce
Every man should be free to invite others to regard him as a woman without fear of inviting violence, discrimination or the loss of basic rights. That is what being protected from transphobia means.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Tensions in NATO and the Looming End of Pax Americana
Brian Stewart
· 6 min read
The New White Man's Burden
It is unforgivable that the rulers of the countries from which citizens are attempting to enter Europe utter not a word when tragedy befalls unseaworthy vessels in the Mediterranean, and they make no effort to have the bodies of the dead returned home.
Rumy Hasan
· 6 min read
Common-Good Capitalism: Populism With a Twist
Embrace flexibility, encourage workers to look outside of work for their happiness, fulfillment, and ultimately their dignity.
Maggie Selner
· 12 min read
The Million-Petalled Flower
He had the gift of producing them by inverting or adapting cliché to give it new life.
Andrew Gleeson
· 15 min read
Something for Nothing—The Importance of Mindful Volunteering
If we are going to contribute our talent and effort to causes as volunteers, we should do so mindfully, as we should with the rest of the choices in our lives, such as whom we choose as lovers or friends.
Chuck Lanigan
· 7 min read
Dual-Enrollment—Effective Strategies or Seductive Stratagems?
Lawmakers who examined various incarnations of dual-enrollment programs were stunned to find students earning college credits for taking gym.
Steve Salerno
· 8 min read
On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson
David Gibson has not lived to see the end of this distressing saga. In late 2018, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and, on November 16 of this year, he passed away aged 65.
Daniel McGraw
· 11 min read
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.
Matt Ridley
· 11 min read
PODCAST 65: Benedict Beckeld on Oikophobia—Fashionable Disdain For Your Own Culture
Philosopher Benedict Beckeld talks to Jonathan Kay about why so many intellectuals and young people loathe the culture of the West.
Quillette, Benedict Beckeld
· 1 min read
When Disruptive Students Are Coddled, the Whole Class Suffers
The emergence of room clears is a product of several fashionable education-policy trends designed to protect the rights of troubled students, often with little regard for the rights of their classmates.
Max Eden
· 6 min read
Ivory-Tower Sex-Work Activists Have Lost Touch with the Needs of Actual Sex Workers
It’s all rather ironic, since sex workers, of all people, should understand the need to protect contentious opinions. From time immemorial, we are the ones who often bore the brunt of attempts to censor sexual expression.
Nadia Guo
· 24 min read
Is Gender a Social Construct?
It appears that biology plays a powerful role in our internalized sense of gender as well as our preference for gendered behaviors (allowing for non-trivial social influences, particular for the latter).
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 9 min read