Ricky Gervais, Man of the People
If courage had a face, it would be a slightly overweight, pasty British multi-millionaire drinking a pint.
Bridget Phetasy
· 3 min read
Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis
Live your own life, worry about your own problems, and let others worry about theirs.
Bill Frezza
· 7 min read
PODCAST 69: Forensic psychologist Armando Simón on the risks of going to Mars
Quillette, Jonathan Kay
· 1 min read
Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century
Aaron Sarin
· 12 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
Mikael Jalving
· 8 min read
Reasons to be Hopeful
The best cure for progress shame is a rationally optimistic attitude with which we can then push civilisation further forward.
Tony Morley
· 6 min read
Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?
Second Wave feminists didn’t care very much about being nice to those outside of their movement.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
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