How Boardgames Teach the Limits of Rationalism
The drive to deal with other players is embedded in the scoring rules, which emphasize economies of scale.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
'The Rise of Jordan Peterson'—A Review
The Rise of Jordan Peterson constructs a kaleidoscopic narrative that enables the viewer to look at the same sequence of events in several different ways.
Carol Horton
· 11 min read
Good Men Aren't Getting Harder to Find
Every year in the US, nearly 2 million students enroll in one of the nearly 4,300 degree-granting colleges and universities.
Daniel Friedman
· 6 min read
The Dangerous Dream of Dismantling Human Hierarchies
Most setups that might appear to be non-hierarchical are actually deeply hierarchical.
Christoph Kletzer
· 19 min read
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
April Halley
· 15 min read
A Shameful Betrayal
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Olga Tokarczuk: Poland's "Patriots" Struggle To Accept The Nobel Prize
Tokarczuk is a passionate proponent of tolerance, feminism and European unity.
Bartosz Wieliński
· 5 min read
PODCAST 57: Amber Scorah talks about leaving the Jehovah's Witnesses
Ex-Jehovah’s Witness Amber Scorah talks to Jonathan Kay about leaving the Christian sect and her book Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life.
Quillette, Amber Scorah
· 1 min read
Science and Data: Notes on a Misconception
The theory that science is based on evidence derives from a philosophy known as empiricism.
Lucas Smalldon
· 7 min read
Fear of a White Joker: When Did the Left Stop Caring About Crime's Root Causes?
The key to reducing violence amongst any demographic is in ascertaining the specific attributes of violent individuals.
Samuel Forster
· 6 min read
The Misuse of Empathy Is Devaluing Pain
Empathy is a fundamental human emotion that helps us to understand one another.
Matthew Delaney
· 8 min read
The Meritocracy Trap—A Review
Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary
John Staddon
· 13 min read
Trudeau’s Government Tried to Block My Election Reporting. (Thankfully, It Failed)
In recent days, the Liberals escalated their campaign against Lawton, by seeking not only to block him from covering the Liberal campaign, but also seeking to deny him accreditation to cover the National Leader’s Debates.
Candice Malcolm
· 8 min read
How Feminism Has Constrained Our Understanding of Gender
Feminist research into sex differences has typically concluded that the number of sex differences is small, and therefore unimportant, thus making the logical error that a small number of differences means those differences are inconsequential.
John Barry
· 7 min read
Buying Fentanyl on the Streets of San Francisco—An Interview with Heather Mac Donald
Cities are one of the great accomplishments of human civilization.
Michael Shellenberger
· 7 min read