The Battle over American "Carnage"
If it is important to show commonalities in black and white life in America, are we succeeding in doing so?
Dan Subotnik
· 5 min read
The Hypocrisy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy
Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Galapagos Giant Tortoises Make a Comeback, Thanks to Innovative Conservation Strategies
With critical support from nonprofits like the Galapagos Conservancy and advice from an international team of conservation scientists.
James P Gibbs
· 6 min read
Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don’t Know Because They’re Afraid to Ask
What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
Brian Boutwell, Conor Barnes
· 7 min read
The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
The NATO alliance was founded in 1949 to counter Soviet military might.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 15 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left
Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Infantilizing Students Post-Election
These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
Matthew Stewart
· 5 min read
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
Artificially Inflating the Threat From Russia Does Nobody Any Good
Their foreign policy record understandably looks chaotic at first glance, but we can nonetheless detect a pattern to it.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Why Growth Most Often Occurs When We Fall Apart
I find this theory to be a very elegant explanation of human potential and the process of growth and change.
Michael Aaron
· 6 min read
Negotiating Standpoints Outside the University Classroom
If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action.
Daniel Tippens
· 6 min read
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Created Political Gridlock in the U.S.
From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bill von Hippel
· 5 min read
Make Expertise Great Again
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Truth About Propaganda
The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read