What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About the Beatitudes
The problem is that Peterson is claiming that the Bible endorses the same idea of effectual personhood that he does.
Justin Shelby
· 12 min read
Shibboleths That Exclude in the Name of Inclusion
Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students?
Sebastian Cesario
· 12 min read
Politics Are Not the Sum of a Person
Politics is important, but it is only a means to an end. Human flourishing, or the good life, is the proper end of social life.
Ryan Fazio
· 9 min read
Beware of Root Causes
Consider this passage from a paper advocating for ‘root cause analysis’ when attempting to understand and solve large-scale social problems.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Privilege versus Paranoia
Privilege is framed as a condition that, once acquired, can never be cured.
Steve Salerno
· 5 min read
Cultural Marxism — Explained and Re-Evaluated
That culture (ideas, religious beliefs, values, etc.) is in the last instance determined by one’s position in a class or social hierarchy.
Galen Watts
· 10 min read
Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy?
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.
Andy Ngo
· 7 min read
A Literary Inquisition — How Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist
However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media.
Brad Cran
· 43 min read
Notes from an Academic Paper Mill
Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so.
Tammy Sheeran
· 8 min read
Harvard Thinks Rich People Are Better Than You
Harvard admissions officials contend that Asians have lower scores on measures of personality, including items for courage, likability, kindness and being “widely respected.
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Dugin's Particularism
If Dugin’s ideas are realized, not just by his tiny sect of Russian nationalism, but by waves of emergent nationalism elsewhere, what will be our moral defense?
Robert James
· 7 min read
Zero Tolerance at the Mexican Border
Enacting policies that provide additional border control isn’t a problem in and of itself. Immigration policies are only a problem if and when they go too far.
Kirio Birks
· 8 min read
Why Women Don't Code
Those of us who disagree with current diversity efforts need to speak up and share our honest opinions, even if doing so puts us at risk.
Stuart Reges
· 18 min read
Factfulness — A Review
Factfulness identifies ten instincts we all share, which tend to over-dramatize the world as we see it.
Lyle Broom
· 7 min read
My Dissertation Disaster
This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.
Jack Morgan Jones
· 11 min read