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
The Birth of the Narcissism Revolution
The Human Potential Movement had posed the Western self a question: if God is inside all of us, then doesn’t it naturally follow that we are all Gods?
Will Storr
· 6 min read
The Enlightenment's Cynical Critics
It is nearly impossible to find a human society that did not, at least at times, practice slavery and engage in barbarous acts of conquest and colonisation.
Katherine Kelaidis
· 5 min read
The Indispensable Study of Inescapable Matters
The subject of philosophy then is the study of indispensable ideas, regarding inescapable matters, at the root of man’s knowledge and values.
Ronald Pisaturo
· 7 min read