Welcome to the West — Please Don't Integrate
The West’s own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 7 min read
Reason and Reality in an Era of Conspiracy
Our memories are deeply fallible and highly suggestible.
Stephen T. Asma
· 12 min read
How Activists Took Control of a University — The Case Study of Evergreen State
Understanding these mechanisms can hopefully produce a broader sense of how ideologically motivated people are able to acquire and wield so much power.
Uri Harris
· 8 min read
Balancing the Threat in the Middle East
What are the sources of Iranian and Saudi foreign policy and what prudent options there are for the West to adopt?
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Get 'Em While They're Young
Political and ideological indoctrination of children is most effective when it begins early.
Oliver Waters
· 13 min read
Romanticising the Hunter-Gatherer
It is important to note that this does not take into account the difficulty or danger involved in the types of tasks undertaken by hunter-gatherers.
William Buckner
· 14 min read
Best of the Web — 18 December 2017
In Memoriam: Remembering Christopher Hitchens Douglas Murray, The Spectator European Anti-Semitism: The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism Paulina Neuding, New York Times U. S. Politics: Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle For Self-Preservation Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Peter Baker, New York Times #MeToo: Why the #MeToo Movement Should Be Ready For
Quillette
· 1 min read
Irrational AI-nxiety
Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy.
Edward Clint
· 9 min read
Help Us Build a Third Culture
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
When Words Lose Their Meaning — Wilfrid Laurier University
Though different literary forms, the key message of both works was the same: beware any person or group that redefines words.
David Millard Haskell
· 12 min read
Worry About Piety Contests, Not Virtue Signalling
The more important problem is that, in addition to getting signaling wrong, the expression also gets virtue wrong.
Cameron Harwick
· 7 min read
Problematic, Poor Taste
What effect does the conceptualization of the document have upon editorial practice?
Quillette
· 9 min read
What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About Grief, Mourning, and the Continuity of Life
The mourning traditions of earlier cultures prescribed precise patterns of behavior that facilitated the public expression of grief and provided support for the bereaved.
Daniel Wojcik and Robert Dobler
· 5 min read
Best of the Web — 9 December 2017
Education: Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule, Washington Post Free Speech, Personified Peter Salovey, New York Times Race and Racism: The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism Olivia Goldhill, Quartz Maybe We Should Just Shut
Quillette
· 1 min read
White Women's Tears — Wilfrid Laurier and Critical Theory
Critical Theory was on the oppressive nature of mass consumerism which is closely linked to capitalism but it gradually expanded to cover almost every area of human relations.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read