You're Fake News — The Unfortunate Reality of Ad Hominem
An ad hominem attack is one directed at an opponent’s character rather than the substance of his arguments and claims.
Elio Martino
· 6 min read
Blockchain and Sex
Blockchain technology also has the potential to be used for smart contracts. Smart contracts provide an automatically enforceable way for buyers and sellers to negotiate a contract.
Justin Campbell
· 4 min read
Damore, Diversity, Disruption — A PSU Perspective
Organizing a student event to discuss any topic — including diversity — should not be a safety hazard.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
The Sceptical Optimist — Interview with Michael Shermer
An interview with the founder of The Skeptics Society.
Claire Lehmann
· 17 min read
The Behavioral Ecology of Male Violence
Understanding patterns of lethal violence among humans requires understanding some important sex differences between males and females.
William Buckner
· 16 min read
The Evergreen Meltdown
Evergreen’s prognosis is guarded at best, but it might explain what ails higher education in general.
Mike Paros
· 6 min read
The Google Memo — A Counterfactual Response
An employee offers an alternative take on the notorious Google Memo.
Publius
· 4 min read
The Search for Meaning and the Dangers of Possession
They provide deep, time-tested channels through which transpersonal energies can flow.
Lisa Marchiano
· 12 min read
Liberalism Can Succeed
The first concerns the relationship of theory to practice; the second, the relationship of liberalism to its preliberal inheritance.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 24 min read
Time for Evidence-Based Gender Policy
But do we really have sound evidence and trustworthy scientific sources, particularly in politically very sensitive areas like gender?
Teresa Gimenez Barbat
· 4 min read
Speaking of Islam — Lubna Ahmed and the Rebel Cause
What is he? A man or a woman? Why should women wear headscarves, that is, the hijab? I ended up asking, Was the Prophet Muhammad real?”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 13 min read
Is Democracy Doomed?
Political scientists are now asking themselves the same question about liberal democracy that Schumpeter asked about markets
Jerrod A. Laber
· 8 min read
Diversity as Managerial Ideology
What would the government consider evidence of discrimination? How much activity counted as a good faith effort toward equal opportunity?
Darel E. Paul
· 10 min read
The Political Chimp
Chimp warfare had been studied for decades. A 2010 study of Ngogo chimps best summarizes the controversies in the field.
Elio Martino
· 7 min read
The One-State Delusion
Instead of becoming a poster boy for globalism, Barcelona has been the setting for a powerful Catalan nationalist movement demanding outright independence.
Leon Hadar
· 23 min read