Terrorism and 'White Privilege'
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
Dale Claridge
· 8 min read
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
Lisa Marchiano
· 11 min read
Read Houellebecq To Free Your Mind
Houellebecq has grave doubts about the net effect of the sexual revolution on human well-being.
Matthew Stahlman
· 15 min read
Universalism Not Centrism
Ideologies are like organisms, and tracing their origins back to common ancestors starts with a system of classification based on careful observation and comparison.
Rick Sint
· 11 min read
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle: Science, Commerce, Freedom, and the Origins of Modernity
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
Robert Darby
· 31 min read
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us.
Alexander Blum
· 9 min read
Germaine Greer and the Emma Dilemma
Greer herself emphasized this point in drawing a distinction between “reform” feminism and “revolutionary” feminism.
Steven C Munson
· 10 min read
A 'Noble Savage' Speaks Up
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 5 min read
Were Trump Voters Irrational?
The value of winning a kayaking trip in a raffle is measured in its consumption utility, not its monetary value.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 26 min read
The German Election—A Conservative Analysis
Germany is a country which takes politics seriously. Chancellor Angela Merkel is an academic herself.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
In Defence of Private Tuition
“Private tuition can be harmful to the long-term academic prospects of children, a leading London headteacher warned today.”
Emma C Williams
· 6 min read
Why Today's Teens Aren't In Any Hurry to Grow Up
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
Jean Twenge
· 5 min read
The Pragmatic Case for Understanding Neurodiversity
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Shanu Athiparambath
· 8 min read
Smearing Free Thought In Silicon Valley
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Best of the Web, September 24th, 2017
Science / Tech Neanderthal boy’s skull reveals they grew like modern boys Agence France Presse, The Guardian A journey through schizophrenia, from researcher, to patient and back Usha Lee McFarling, Stat News Uber, reviving old tactic, is backed by more than 500,000 in London row Paresh Dave, William Schomberg,
Quillette
· 1 min read