The Incentives for Groupthink
What is groupthink? It is the powerful mechanism through which groups reinforce.
Neema Parvini
· 12 min read
Is Political Diversity on the Op-Ed Page Worth Defending?
Nicholas Phillips
· 6 min read
Steven Pinker and Counter-Enlightenment Convictions — Surprisingly Resilient
What are some of the classic experiments in psychology that you think an educated person should know about?
Quillette
· 7 min read
Who Will the Evergreen Mob Target Next?
An Evergreen professor of biology, Bret Weinstein, wrote an email in which he expressed opposition to the idea that self-segregation was a useful exercise.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
Towards a Cognitive Theory of Politics
A Cognitive Theory of Politics can improve our understanding of contemporary political movements, such as the protests happening on college campuses.
Stephen Messenger
· 16 min read
Is the Internet Complete?
Is it possible that innovation is not only stalling in non-tech areas, but in tech itself? Could we make an argument to say that the internet itself is, in fact, complete?
Alex Smith
· 5 min read
Social Media — The Case for Deactivation
Technologically speaking, social media could steer their users’ hijacked minds towards the known beneficial functions and away from the harmful ones.
Jonathan Reid Surovell
· 12 min read
Kevin Williamson Is Not a Free Speech Martyr
Are we required to treat this as a legitimate view deserving of an audience and a debate? Or are we allowed to conclude that Kevin Williamson is a callous fanatic?
O. T. Ford
· 13 min read
Life Pretending to Be an Egyptian Atheist
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
Anthon Jackson
· 24 min read
Stifling Uniformity in Literary Theory
Many universities and colleges currently advertise literary theory courses which purport to introduce students to a range of different approaches to literary texts.
Neema Parvini
· 11 min read
A Defence of Critical Legal Theory — Reply to Andrew Kelman
The pursuit of collective ‘social justice’ at the expense of evidentiary standards would have a tremendously negative impact on the legal system.
Matt McManus
· 9 min read
Diversity in the Concert Hall
In theory, these sound like good-natured progressive policies. After all, who doesn’t like diversity?
Brad Ross
· 8 min read
The Scientific Importance of Free Speech
These are merely tools that help us to accomplish a far greater mission, which is to choose between rival narratives, in the vicious, no-holds-barred battle of ideas that we call “science”.
Adam Perkins
· 7 min read
Sam Harris Is Right — Ezra Klein Doesn't Know Better
That view cuts to the core of the difference between the Right and the Left on economic policy.
Joseph Klein
· 4 min read
Training Masculinity into Children
Research also suggests1 that ‘metrosexual’ men can be understood as those engaging in a sophisticated dynamic of traditionally masculine characteristics.
Elio Martino
· 7 min read