Rethinking Romance with Stendhal's 'On Love'
The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) “crystallization”
Matthew Stahlman
· 16 min read
It's Time to Marginalize the University and Revive the Café
Why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
David Adler
· 7 min read
Rational AI-nxiety: A Counter-Argument
Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution.
Anna Marieta Moise
· 11 min read
Welcome to the West, But Please Don’t Integrate…
The West’s own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 7 min read
Reason and Reality in an Era of Conspiracy
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
Stephen T. Asma
· 12 min read
How Activists Took Control of a University: The Case Study of Evergreen State
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
Uri Harris
· 8 min read
Balancing Threat in the Middle East
What are the sources of Iranian and Saudi foreign policy and what prudent options there are for the West to adopt?
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Get ‘Em While They’re Young
This negative definition is a handy one, as it doesn’t commit her to any specific doctrines that have actually been historically implemented and shown to have failed.
Oliver Waters
· 13 min read
Romanticizing the Hunter-Gatherer
It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.
William Buckner
· 14 min read
Best of the Web, 18 December 2017
In Memoriam: Remembering Christopher Hitchens Douglas Murray, The Spectator European Anti-Semitism: The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism Paulina Neuding, New York Times U. S. Politics: Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle For Self-Preservation Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Peter Baker, New York Times #MeToo: Why the #MeToo Movement Should Be Ready For
Quillette
· 1 min read
Irrational AI-nxiety
Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy.
Edward Clint
· 9 min read
Help Us Build a Third Culture
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Words Lose Their Meaning at Wilfrid Laurier University
Though different literary forms, the key message of both works was the same: beware any person or group that redefines words.
David Millard Haskell
· 12 min read
Worry About Piety Contests, Not 'Virtue Signaling'
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
Cameron Harwick
· 7 min read
"Problematic and In Poor Taste"
What effect does the conceptualization of the document have upon editorial practice?
Quillette
· 9 min read