Explaining Monogamy to Vox
“Why would humans all around the world invent a rule that’s so difficult to follow, and treat breaking as such an enormous betrayal?”
William Buckner
· 14 min read
I Want to Hold Seminars on Empire — Interview with Nigel Biggar
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
What's Wrong with the American Academy?
A colleague of mine in the economics department once said, “when the price of bullshit is zero, demand is inelastic.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
Are Liberal Democracies Rape Cultures?
The rape culture is much like the poor sanitation conditions which led to typhoid—it provides an environment in which acts of rape are fostered.
Antonin Foucaux
· 10 min read
Robert Kennedy — An Improbable Liberal Hero
Kennedy turned the tables on the conventional wisdom by moving — both by circumstance and by calculation — in a more liberal direction.
Ross Baker
· 5 min read
Portland Bakery, White Guilt, and Poisoned Batter
The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakery’s management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements.
Andy Ngo
· 15 min read
The High Price of Stale Grievances
Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
Coleman Hughes
· 14 min read
Prison House of Political Language
Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it."
Neema Parvini
· 11 min read
The Limits of Expertise
People value expertise in closed systems, but are distrustful of expertise in open systems.
Alex Smith
· 7 min read
The Trouble with Technocracy
Elon Musk offers a good example of how technocrats don’t always get it right, and why trusting them with the world’s progress is risky.
Lyle Broom
· 8 min read
Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education — A Review
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
Noam Stein
· 9 min read
RedState Firings and the Decline of Viewpoint Diversity on the Right
It later emerged that the RedState firings were part of a larger effort by the site’s owner Salem Media Group to clamp down on criticism of Trump.
Patrick Frey
· 8 min read
Racism and the Underdetermination of Evidence
The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution.
James Collin and Anthony Bolos
· 11 min read
Tired Old Myths — The New Republic Slanders Jung
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart
· 5 min read
Who's Afraid of Tribalism?
Common fear of ‘tribalism’ reveals them to be members of a particular kind of ‘tribe,’ one that perpetuates its power by accusing opponents of tribalism.
Blake Smith
· 10 min read