The Feminist Case for Free Speech
Could it be time to reassess global standards of free speech to mute misogynist trolls and amplify the voices of women?
Jacob Mchangama
· 8 min read
What the Alt-Right and Regressive Left Have in Common
They encourage each other with increasing zeal to root out heretics, and wage war against infidels. True believers do not welcome skeptics.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
Why Jordan B Peterson Appeals to Me (And I Am on the Left)
Peterson’s critics would be helping him refine his theories and hone his argumentation, moving our cultural conceptions of human nature forward.
Alexander Blum
· 11 min read
Why the Techlash Won't Go Away
Suddenly, the same Internet companies that Democrats celebrated as forces for change in dealing with education, income inequality and global democracy.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
The Problem of Credulity
We could come up with any number of examples. But is there any more to be said, other than that it is a disposition to be irrational?
Piers Benn
· 12 min read
Crown and Consternation
Confusingly, however, it has been impossible to discern what this principle actually is.
David Paxton
· 8 min read
Why Do Men Rape?
“Rape is not about sexual orientation or sexual desire. It is an act of power and control in which the victim is brutalized and humiliated.”
Matthew Blackwell
· 15 min read
With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part II: English as a Dead Language
It is hard to pinpoint when the traditional canon of English poetry began to disintegrate in educational institutions.
Sandra Kotta
· 18 min read
The Tyranny of the Subjective
Among these is a preference for what have come to be called ‘traditionally marginalized narratives.
Elizabeth Finne
· 15 min read
With Stories Like These, Who Needs Talent? Part I: A Cautionary Tale for Writers
Not merely in terms of what is published and circulated, but even with respect to the work that fledgling authors aspire to produce.
Sandra Kotta
· 14 min read
The Wizard and the Prophet: On Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari
Pinker reminds us of what we in the chattering classes too often forget: namely, that modernity has for the most part been a major upgrade for humanity.
John Faithful Hamer
· 9 min read
Against Intellectual Rent-Seekers
The inquisitorial interview of Lindsay Shepherd demonstrated, rent-seekers will claim that exposing students to ideas they oppose runs contrary.
Kevin Leach
· 6 min read
Diversity and Inclusion vs Free Speech on Campus
So what, then, is the ‘Diversity Agenda’? Browse through any university website and you will likely find a page for an office of diversity and inclusion.
Coltan Scrivner
· 9 min read
Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews
To understand the alt-right’s anti-Semitism, we must understand MacDonald’s ideas, particularly as outlined in his most influential book, The Culture of Critique.
Jonathan Anomaly, Nathan Cofnas
· 10 min read