Sex, Seductions, and Social Explanation
At its best, commentary on the science of sex differences has been about method and about evidence, and the knowledge that, with care, these can produce.
At its best, commentary on the science of sex differences has been about method and about evidence, and the knowledge that, with care, these can produce.
The election on October 15 could see the FPÖ enter government for the first time in nearly 20 years. How did we get here?
Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
It is in such trancelike states that Murakami’s characters are drawn into the lands of the surreal and the absurd.
Such levels of gang violence are without parallel in Sweden’s modern history. And with police busy dealing with gang murders and shootings, rape victims wait for justice.
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
Without such a process occurring, outsiders will be unable to look at the market and garner any reliable knowledge about the state of the world.
In the suggested world of universal basic income, what puts pressure on the government to maintain democracy and political rights?
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
There would be calls for interventions, the topic would be urgently raised at the Security Council —and there might even be talks of sanctions or the arming of moderate rebels.
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
Houellebecq has grave doubts about the net effect of the sexual revolution on human well-being.
Ideologies are like organisms, and tracing their origins back to common ancestors starts with a system of classification based on careful observation and comparison.