Jordan Peterson Rallies Portlandia’s Dissidents
Inside, Mr. Peterson caught glimpses of the protest on a mobile phone while waiting backstage. “These are the brave masked people?
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
Free Speech and the Capitulation of the SPLC
The SPLC, which had already removed the “Field Guide” from its website in April, issued a retraction and an apology—and agreed to pay Nawaz a $3.4 million settlement.
Cathy Young
· 7 min read
Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Displace Asians In New York's Top Schools
Just 4 percent of specialized high school students got in under this program in 2017, but de Blasio will expand this program to fill 20 percent of the seats.
Daniel Friedman
· 11 min read
Diversity and Discrimination in Open Source
What is the problem with that? Isn’t diversity something we should incentivize? As it happens, I don’t think diversity is either inherently good or inherently bad.
Rafael Avila de Espindola
· 7 min read
What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About the Beatitudes
The problem is that Peterson is claiming that the Bible endorses the same idea of effectual personhood that he does.
Justin Shelby
· 12 min read
Shibboleths That Exclude in the Name of Inclusion
Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students?
Sebastian Cesario
· 12 min read
Politics Are Not the Sum of a Person
Politics is important, but it is only a means to an end. Human flourishing, or the good life, is the proper end of social life.
Ryan Fazio
· 9 min read
Beware of Root Causes
Consider this passage from a paper advocating for ‘root cause analysis’ when attempting to understand and solve large-scale social problems.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Privilege Versus Paranoia
Privilege is framed as a condition that, once acquired, can never be cured.
Steve Salerno
· 5 min read
'Cultural Marxism' Explained and Re-Evaluated
That culture (ideas, religious beliefs, values, etc.) is in the last instance determined by one’s position in a class or social hierarchy.
Galen Watts
· 10 min read
Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy?
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.
Andy Ngo
· 7 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
Notes From an Academic Paper Mill
Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so.
Tammy Sheeran
· 8 min read
Harvard Thinks Rich People Are Better Than You
Harvard admissions officials contend that Asians have lower scores on measures of personality, including items for courage, likability, kindness and being “widely respected.
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Dugin's Particularism
If Dugin’s ideas are realized, not just by his tiny sect of Russian nationalism, but by waves of emergent nationalism elsewhere, what will be our moral defense?
Robert James
· 7 min read