Elham Manea on Fundamentalism and Reform
“For a tiny minority, it is about the bloodlust of the battlefield,” she says. “However, for the majority, Islamists operate through nonviolence.
Andy Ngo
· 11 min read
Portugal Writes Self-Definition of Gender into Law
It’s difficult to say if it was really created to advance the rights of these people, or if it was simply cobbled together on some sort of whim.
Ricardo Lopes
· 8 min read
The Illiberal Logic of Intersectionality
The claim that intersectionality can be fully separated from radicalism and opposition to free speech remains unconvincing.
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
· 10 min read
The Problem with Candace Owens
Owens assured me these pages were from a “dummy test site,” not the real Social Autopsy database which was not online yet.
Cathy Young
· 11 min read
Life as a Kuffar — Seven Lost Years in Kuwait
Every industry in Kuwait is bloated with salaried, citizen employees who pick and choose their working schedules.
Carla Wilson
· 13 min read
Unpopular Speech and the Shaping of the First Amendment
Schenck and Masses provided opportunities for two judges to set the foundations of First Amendment doctrine for many years to come.
Jak Allen
· 9 min read
Racial Disparities and the High Cost of Low-Quality Debates
Ideological intolerance in academia and the media has dramatically narrowed the range of ‘acceptable’ ideas, beliefs, and even topics of discussion.
Ben Wilterdink
· 15 min read
Quasi-Religious Appeals to the Judgement of History
“People (mostly liberals) tend to say, ‘You’re on the wrong side of history’ about social issues that are breaking their way.
Bonny Brooks
· 7 min read
The Man of Yesterday — Karl Marx and His Place in History
Marx endures not for his relevance, but because his dense writings offer endless material for academic sermonising.
Robert Darby
· 9 min read
Liberalism — Classical and Egalitarian
These modern classical liberals have a diverse array of opinions on a wide array of issues. Summarizing them all would be impossible.
Matt McManus
· 15 min read
Against the Politicisation of Museums
Activists wanted museums to pivot away from historic collections and towards their audiences, focusing more on excluded groups.
Michael Savage
· 6 min read
Unconscious Bias Training as a Management Tool
Training on ‘unconscious bias’ is the punishment that hiring committees face for not hiring enough female and (non-Asian) minority professors.
Sebastian Cesario
· 4 min read
The Commodification of Learning and the Decline of the Humanities
We also have our separate ‘facts,’ often the result of what different media outlets consider newsworthy.”
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
Does Paul Krugman Understand Intellectual Diversity?
Nicholas Phillips
· 4 min read
The Legacy of the Soixante-Huitards
There was a further fork in the road as soixante-huitards debated moving on from baiting police at protests to participating in terrorism.
Scott Hargreaves
· 6 min read