Jordan B. Peterson, Critical Theory, and the New Bourgeoisie
Where did the social justice advocates, and their associated attitude, come from?
Uri Harris
· 10 min read
Tinder and the Tyranny of Language
If you are young, that typically involves re-installing an app like Tinder and giving the dice of fate another proverbial throw.
Jarrod Gott
· 9 min read
Racism, Anti-Racism, Orientalism, and LitHub
Suffice it to say that he hardly comes off as a right-wing cultural warrior seeking to embed himself among the enemy.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
Catherine Deneuve, #MeToo, and the Fracturing Within Feminism
The disproportionate backlash that Deneuve and her co-signers have incited is indeed a sign of the fracturing within feminism.
Ulysse Pasquier
· 7 min read
True Happiness Isn't About Happy Times
Happiness experts have argued that happiness is not a stable, unchangeable trait but something flexible that we can work on and ultimately strive towards.
Lowri Dowthwaite
· 4 min read
The Failed Hero's Journey
A failed hero is a young person who finds that chaos insurmountable, and is swallowed by its overwhelming force.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
Freedom of Expression and the Flight from Reason
What are the intellectual tendencies behind this new intolerance, and how do they creep into popular discourse?
Piers Benn
· 11 min read
Immanuel Kant's Elitism
The post-truth era is surely a reaction against elitism and supposed experts.
Jacob Phillips
· 9 min read
The Benefits of Philosophical Instruction
"Justification for such claims. Getting higher test scores after studying philosophy does not show that higher scores are the result of studying philosophy."
Preston Stovall
· 8 min read
Defending the Humanities from Its Defenders
It is an answer looking for a question, the opposite of an open and free search for true knowledge about human beings in the world through time.
Matthew Neufeld
· 4 min read
Canada Has Gone Mad — Indigenous Representation and the Hounding of Angie Abdou
Abdou responded to the advice she got by writing a different kind of book altogether. “These were big edits,” she says. “I now had a ghost story without a ghost.”
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Nikola Tesla — The Extraordinary Life of a Modern Prometheus
The match for each, of course, is Tesla. Surprised? Most people have heard his name, but few know much about his place in modern science and technology.
Richard Gunderman
· 6 min read
Memory and the Spanish Flu
The origins of the virus are disputed. Researchers have pointed to China, Austria and France.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
The Empathy Gap in Tech — Interview with a Software Engineer
The tech industry more broadly is rarely discussed in terms of friendliness towards those with high functioning autism, such as Gideon.
Claire Lehmann
· 15 min read
Plenty of Room for AI-nxiety
Things change once we leave the world of infallible humans who can create a perfectly benevolent general intelligence.
Christopher Reuenthal
· 10 min read