The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.
The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Government and policy would be better off if they were presided over and/or dictated by technical experts.
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Dr David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about ISIS, Syria and the Kurds.
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
I am sure that men, and the world in general, would be better off if we could foster more intimate male friendships and more honest interaction between men and doctors but some idealised vision of male sensitivity might shatter when confronted with the stresses of the world.
In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.
Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.
In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.
This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.
The CPAC crowd loved Trump’s message—not his theatrics or his celebrity, but his message—and the fervent reaction to him far out-stripped that of every other speaker, including the many White House hopefuls who sought the GOP nomination in 2012.