Making a Stand for Cultural Universalism
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Islamic Feminism's Depressing Future
Muslim women are fighting stridently within their communities, but their fight doesn’t tread the same path as secular Western feminism.
Chetna Prakash
· 8 min read
The Pre-Modernism of the Future
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
The Impasse of Modernism and Postmodernism
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
Patrick Lee Miller
· 22 min read
Academic Journal Publishing Is Headed for a Day of Reckoning
Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions.
Patrick Burns
· 6 min read
The Demise of Public Language
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Brian Russell Graham
· 6 min read
Racism Disguised as Anti-Racism
The lack of any ideological counterpoise has created a vacuum where ideas have no mechanism or incentive for moderation.
Andy Ngo
· 4 min read
Cakeshop Conflicts — Let Them Eat Rights
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
Brian K. Miller
· 9 min read
Resisting the Postmodern Ascendancy — An Interview with Ernest Suarez
The ALSCW started because of the ascendancy of postmodernist theory, but not because of the politics associated with postmodern theory.
Brian Russell Graham
· 11 min read
A Defence of Jordan B. Peterson
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
Uri Harris
· 15 min read
Why Didn't the Industrial Revolution Happen in Rome?
What, I wondered, would have happened had Jesus emerged in a Roman Empire that had gone through an industrial revolution?
Helen Dale
· 8 min read
A Brief History of Tolerance
The celebration of tolerance as an end in itself is a symptom of the shift from self-confident modern liberal democracies to the self-doubting postmodern ones.
Alexis Carre
· 12 min read
The Politics of Science — Scientists Might Not Say What the Evidence Supports
The case for deferring to scientific consensus on politically contentious topics is much weaker. This is true because what scientists publicly say may differ from what they privately believe.
Jonathan Anomaly
· 6 min read
Should We Be Worried About GMOs?
GMOs interact with wider global systems that they could potentially undermine, with terrible consequence.
Simon Beard and Rachel Polfer
· 6 min read
The Case for Moral Doubt
When you find yourself in a moral stalemate, where appeals to rationality and empirical reality have been exhausted.
Scotty Jenkins
· 6 min read