Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
Matthew Mott
· 8 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Stereotypes Are Often Harmful, and Accurate
Stereotyping begets many social problems, but you seldom solve a problem by mischaracterizing its nature.
Noam Shpancer
· 13 min read
The 'Black Chic' Wave
To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.
Coleman Hughes
· 8 min read
The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Robert Cherry
· 11 min read
When Censorship Is Crowdsourced
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Reflections on the Revolution at Yale
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Jamie Kirchick
· 7 min read
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
Theodore P. Hill
· 14 min read
Exterminate Mosquitoes for the Sake of Humanity
If we are worried about the loss of diversity, we could eliminate the human-biting mosquitoes and spend a few million dollars helping, say, endangered beetles.
James D. Miller
· 6 min read
Sweden's General Election Turmoil
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
The UK Labour Party and the System of Diversity
The Tribe is an articulate, scrupulously fair but nonetheless root-and-branch attack on the ‘system and administration of diversity’, not only in UK Labour but also in other British institutions, including the civil service and the BBC.
Helen Dale
· 18 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right
Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse.
Andrew Glover
· 7 min read
A Facebook Engineer's Plea for Political Diversity
So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.
Gideon Scopes
· 7 min read
Understanding Postmodern Conservatism: A Reply To Aaron Hanlon
Professor Hanlon argues that, far from independently causing Trump, many postmodern theorists can actually help us understand the rise of Trumpism.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read