Bad Data Analysis and Psychology's Replication Crisis
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 7 min read
How Due Process Fell Victim to Good Intentions: A Veteran Court Reporter Looks Back
The Tarrant manifesto is banned in New Zealand. This is ridiculous, I think. How can you know a thing if you’re not allowed to name it?
Christie Blatchford
· 15 min read
From Academia to Hollywood: An Interview with Tony Tost
Right now, I’m maybe most spooked by how a living, breathing cultural memory is seeming to evaporate.
Clay Routledge
· 21 min read
Human Dignity and Human Rights
But it does mean that arbitrary factors, such as whether one is born into a wealthy family or happens to be part of some historically elevated demographic, should not determine where people end up
Matt McManus
· 8 min read
Conservatives in Philosophy: A Brief Rejoinder to Tristan Rogers
If the whole academe is meant to pursue truth, then it can be fine for different traditions to develop that are not perfect ideological representatives of society at large.
Shelby T. Hanna
· 5 min read
Quillette Podcast 43 – Jamie Kilstein on Leaving Los Angeles and Hanging Out With Moby
Jonathan Kay talks to Jamie Kilstein, comedian and podcaster, about his departure from LA, Andy Ngo’s Antifa beating and what it’s like to hang out with Moby.
Quillette, Jamie Kilstein
· 1 min read
Canada's Treatment of Indigenous Peoples Was Cruel. But Calling It an Ongoing 'Genocide' Is Wrong
The crime of genocide is typically investigated and litigated with the goal of holding genocidaires accountable for their crimes.
David Mount
· 19 min read
Neutralizing Ngo: The Apologetics of Antifascist Street Violence
In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.
Ernest Nickels
· 9 min read
In Defense of Decency
Adopting common humanity politics is not just moral, it’s also effective.
Robert McLeod
· 9 min read
Why China is Hiding the Horrors of Its Past
While the Chinese government continues to transform Xinjiang through its cultural genocide program aimed at eliminating the distinct identity of the Uyghur population, it is also putting a high priority on controlling the history of the region and its people.
Nick Taber
· 8 min read
Fully Automated Luxury Communism—A Review
Like almost every other communist before him, Bastani wants to reach communism via socialism. Thus, the fact that socialism has already been tried more than two dozen times, and failed every time without exception, should be somewhat relevant to this book.
Kristian Niemietz
· 11 min read
Democrats Control America’s Most Dangerous Cities. So Why Do They Keep Passing the Buck on Gun Crime?
Progressives, who have long branded themselves as forward-looking policy innovators challenging the hidebound dogmas of conservatism, would benefit from challenging their own fixation on history’s rearview mirror.
Jamil Jivani
· 8 min read
So This Is the (Real) Tale of Our Castaways: Lessons from Shipwrecked Micro-Societies
Survivor communities manifested cooperation in diverse ways: sharing food equitably; taking care of injured or sick colleagues; working together to dig wells, bury the dead, co-ordinate a defense, or maintain signal fires; or jointly planning to build a boat or secure rescue.
Nicholas Christakis
· 11 min read
How Prophetic Was Gattaca?
Gattaca was prophetic, but not quite in the way Niccol intended.
George Schifini
· 5 min read
Deplatforming Won't Work
An even more fundamental reason why social media companies shouldn’t try to suppress controversial ideas is that they are very bad at determining who and what is wrong or dangerous.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read