Serwer Error — Misunderstanding Trump Voters
Serwer's exit poll data misled on Trump voters. Reliable studies show working-class whites backed him, elites didn't.
Zach Goldberg
· 7 min read
Books to Read in 2018
Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker “Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases…” Read more at Amazon. The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “The generation now coming of age has been taught three
Quillette
· 4 min read
Femen's Inna Shevchenko — Fear of Causing Offence Has Cost Many Innocent Lives
Femen founder Inna Shevchenko argues that the Western taboo on criticising religion — especially Islam — has directly enabled atrocities that frank discussion might have prevented.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Collision with Reality — What Depth Psychology Can Tell Us About Victimhood Culture
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
Lisa Marchiano
· 11 min read
Direct Democracy and Its Discontents
What is direct democracy? It is a process of political decision-making that puts power directly in the hands of the populace.
Oliver Conolly
· 12 min read
Using Blockchain to Fight Corruption
Blockchain technology has the power to render the dealings of businesses and nation states into open books, purged of secrecy and the privacy of elite cabals.
Alexander Blum
· 6 min read
The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
Technologies arising out of our improved understanding may be developed to enhance IQ and considers some of the ethical questions that gives rise to.
Toby Young
· 7 min read
Neuroscience and Intelligence — Interview with Richard Haier
Is it possible to see if someone is high in g by their brain activity on a PET scan or fMRI scan – and if so, what does it look like?
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
Rethinking Romance — Stendhal's Love
The key term Stendhal introduces, which is central to his vision of romance, is (to use the Americanized spelling) “crystallization”
Matthew Stahlman
· 16 min read
Time to Marginalise the University and Revive the Café
Why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
David Adler
· 7 min read
Rational AI-nxiety — A Counter-Argument
Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution.
Anna Marieta Moise
· 11 min read
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