Escaping Conformity
Conformity, broadly defined, is a tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology.
Jacob Little
· 14 min read
Steven Pinker's Counter-Counter-Enlightenment
Peter Harrison took exception to his “teleological view of history” and “misplaced faith in data, metrics and statistical analysis.”
Saloni Dattani
· 12 min read
The Case for Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles are currently being designed to drive for longer and in a more efficient manner than traditional, fossil fuel-burning vehicles.
Brandon J. Weichert
· 7 min read
The Future of Human Spaceflight
In this article a number of observations are discussed that point toward a human spaceflight future deeply buried in uncertainty.
Philip Backman
· 16 min read
The Sanders-Venezuela Meme
Sanders’s disavowal was scorned by Venezuelan state media and dismayed Chavez’s remaining defenders in the West.
Jack Staples-Butler
· 12 min read
The Psychology of Progressive Hostility
This sort of my-way-or-the-highway mentality is now spreading well beyond the urban university and into even remote communities.
Matthew Blackwell
· 11 min read
Two Tribes Go to War
That fee was temporarily suspended by a federal judge on first amendment grounds, although the final decision is still pending.
Stuart Reges
· 7 min read
The Deleterious Effects of Tabloid Discourse
A strikingly careless habit to fall into on the part of those who participate in the mass distribution of information, its consequences are severe.
William Vaillancourt
· 8 min read
Silicon Valley's ABCs of Diversity
In the first scenario, it’s sensible to take the widest array of objects. Who knows which object is valuable or why?
Kirio Birks
· 7 min read
Incomprehension 501 — Introduction to Graduate School
My last book purge found me deciding the fate of Slavoj Žižek’s Tarrying With The Negative, a book I read in a class on Shakespeare and political theory.
S. A. Dance
· 9 min read
Living in Parallel Societies
Was that supposed to make them see the error of their ways? Of course not. That’s how you get people to hunker down and reject social change altogether.
Nick Ottens
· 7 min read
Privilege: A Term That Has Lost Its Utility
Which other voices would be promoted and approved by all, and how would they achieve that sort of prominence? How would any of this be to society’s advantage?
Genevieve Weynerowski
· 6 min read
Would You Opt for Immortality?
Michael Shermer
· 5 min read
The Academic Mob and Its Fatal Toll
“Academic Mobbing, Or How To Become Campus Tormentors,” Eve Seguin wrote, “Mobbing is social murder and, by definition, people cannot survive their own murder.”
Brad Cran
· 12 min read
Transgenderism as Social Construction and Diagnosis
Tannehill subsequently posted the article to the Facebook page of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Lisa Marchiano
· 10 min read