At this Portland Bakery, White Guilt Poisons the Batter
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Andy Ngo
· 15 min read
The High Price of Stale Grievances
Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
Coleman Hughes
· 14 min read
The Prison-House of Political Language
Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it."
Neema Parvini
· 11 min read
The Limits of Expertise
People value expertise in closed systems, but are distrustful of expertise in open systems.
Alex Smith
· 7 min read
The Trouble with Technocracy
Elon Musk offers a good example of how technocrats don’t always get it right, and why trusting them with the world’s progress is risky.
Lyle Broom
· 8 min read
Bryan Caplan's 'The Case Against Education' — A Review
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
Noam Stein
· 9 min read
The RedState Firings and the Decline of Viewpoint Diversity on the Right
It later emerged that the RedState firings were part of a larger effort by the site’s owner Salem Media Group to clamp down on criticism of Trump.
Patrick Frey
· 8 min read
Racism and Underdetermination by Evidence
The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution.
James Collin and Anthony Bolos
· 11 min read
“Tired, Old Myths:” The New Republic Slanders Jung
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart
· 5 min read
Who's Afraid of Tribalism?
Common fear of ‘tribalism’ reveals them to be members of a particular kind of ‘tribe,’ one that perpetuates its power by accusing opponents of tribalism.
Blake Smith
· 10 min read
Behind the Mask: Inside the Black Bloc
Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers.
Thomas Spoelhof
· 9 min read
Are Centrists Really Most Hostile to Democracy?
Centrists routinely accuse their political rivals of undermining democracy.
Philippe Lemoine
· 14 min read
Silence Around Test Scores Serves the Privileged
It’s true that being very smart and scoring very well on the SAT is the only way most people can have a chance of getting into an Ivy League school
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
A Different Kind of Privilege
The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life.
Hunter Baker
· 5 min read
Communicating Science in an Era of Post-Truth
The solution seemed to be clear: educate the public and they will accept the science.
Ryan Glaubke
· 8 min read