Intellectual Rent-Seekers
The inquisitorial interview of Lindsay Shepherd demonstrated, rent-seekers will claim that exposing students to ideas they oppose runs contrary.
Kevin Leach
· 6 min read
Diversity vs Free Speech on Campus
So what, then, is the ‘Diversity Agenda’? Browse through any university website and you will likely find a page for an office of diversity and inclusion.
Coltan Scrivner
· 9 min read
Why I Hate Margaret Atwood
And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
What the Alt-Right Gets Wrong About Jews
To understand the alt-right’s anti-Semitism, we must understand MacDonald’s ideas, particularly as outlined in his most influential book, The Culture of Critique.
Jonathan Anomaly, Nathan Cofnas
· 10 min read
High-Functioning and Fine
Asperger thought it was far more common and existed on a “continuum,” or what we now call the ‘spectrum.’
Marion Pennell
· 7 min read
Britain's Grooming Gang Crisis
Yet if the phenomenon is to be understood it is important to evaluate the data objectively. Otherwise we have a lot of heat and little light.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
The Meaning of Freedom
Inside the hall, Peterson’s remarks were briefly interrupted by two protesters who mounted the stage and unfurled a banner that read “Freedom To Smash Bigotry.”
Aaron Pope
· 5 min read
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