Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read
The Rise of Donald Trump
Trump has parlayed the fear, loathing, and restlessness of those who feel left behind by postindustrial America into an impressive presidential campaign.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 11 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Why Innovation Requires Economic Freedom
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
Aaron Tao
· 5 min read
Study Suggests Society's View of Males Has Soured
“Gender Stereotypes Just As Prevalent in 2016 As In The 1980s, New Study Finds, So Maybe Things Aren’t As Great As We’d Like To Believe.”
Cathy Young
· 6 min read
Why Some Humans Developed a Taste for Milk and Some Didn't
The ability to digest dairy products as adults is likely to be adaptive owing to its increased nutritional benefits (sugars, as well as fat, protein and calcium) and milk’s role as an important drinking source in arid regions.
Giles Yeo
· 4 min read
The Great Diversity Scam
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Stephen Beard
· 3 min read
The Bermuda Triangle of Science
Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science.
Brian Boutwell
· 9 min read
How To Have An Opinion Worth Hearing
I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just what’s right…
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Female Genital Cutting: Harm, Human Rights and the Possibility of a Sex-Neutral Approach
In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC.
Robert Darby
· 16 min read
How Marcuse Made Today’s Students Less Tolerant Than Their Parents
For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease.
April Kelly-Woessner
· 5 min read
What Does Science Tell Us About the So-Called Ferguson Effect?
A substantial segment of the American public is questioning the legitimacy of police actions, including the use of force. This attention is a Ferguson effect in itself.
Scott E Wolfe Scott H Decker and David C Pyrooz
· 9 min read
Regaining a Sense of Sanity in an Age of Social Media
The cultural practices of manufactured outrage, sensationalism and professional offense taking seem to have set us on course for a total cultural burnout.
J. Andrew
· 7 min read
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too.
Toni Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
Geoffrey Lehmann
· 20 min read