Linda Gottfredson's Scientific Keynote Was Cancelled — Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.
Uri Harris
· 11 min read
Righteous Among the Nations — The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Castellanos
With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 6 min read
Single-Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem
Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful
Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie
· 8 min read
Privilege and Double Standards at the Kavanaugh Hearings
One would hope that senators could have worked together to examine the available evidence in a manner that showed respect for all parties involved.
Gideon Scopes
· 10 min read
Google's China Ambitions Threaten US National Security
What can we do about China’s potential future ability to harm American politicians through influencing Internet companies that operate in both China and the United States?
James D. Miller
· 6 min read
The Devolution of Social Science
Without the possibility of objectivity, there is no science. Has sociology become, then, just political activism? To some extent, yes.
John Staddon
· 20 min read
Don't Get Fooled Again — The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism
The socialist experiment has been run and the results are in: it is a failure—Revolution => Dictatorship => Horror.
Murray Bessette
· 12 min read
When "Believe the Victim" Backfires
In this charged atmosphere, and with the national press looking on as well, two members of the UM football team—one of them none other than the quarterback and team captain—were charged with sexual intercourse without consent.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
A New Kind of Economy — Interview with Andrew Yang
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
Peter Clarke
· 17 min read
Writers Behind Grievance Studies Hoax Address Criticisms
The three of you have continually stated your leftist political identity in your writing and on your social media accounts. How is your political affiliation relevant to the project?
Andy Ngo
· 8 min read
The Virtue of Nationalism — A Review
The second and most impressive section of the book lays out Hazony’s principled arguments for adopting a vision of the world order characterized by an 'order of independent nation states.'
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
Why Assumptions About Rising Inequality Are Wrong
“Rising inequality” has become a catch-all explanation with which politicians, journalists, and intellectuals can wave away the actual concerns of “populists,” with abstract talk about the “underlying economic causes” — few if any of which stand up to scrutiny.
Neema Parvini
· 9 min read
The Curious Reemergence of Little Platoons
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as “less-evolved” than members of their own party.
Alexandra Hudson
· 4 min read