Mimesis Machines — Millennials
Rene Girard’s writing on mimesis raises several interesting questions about the current moment.
George Gallatin
· 6 min read
How the Politics of the Left Lost Its Way
One important – and overlooked – effect was how it changed the idea of the term “Left” in political terminology.
Geoffrey M Hodgson
· 5 min read
Education NGO Faces Backlash After Academics Retract Essay Citing Intelligence Research
The essay’s author and summit panelist, Toby Young, says he was blindsided at the sudden retraction two days after its publication.
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
Postmodern Creationism in Academia — Why Evergreen Matters
The central problem with the university administration’s opinion column was that none of the accusations were relevant to the fieldwork and research in question.
Norbert Francis
· 14 min read
Why Feminists Must Understand Evolution
If our common goal is to encourage reciprocal respect for other individuals, in spite of average differences in group proclivities.
Marta Iglesias
· 14 min read
Combating Creationism
In a world where blank-slatism, anti-vaccine rhetoric, myths about the effects of parenting, and climate change denial persist and even thrive.
Emily Willoughby
· 12 min read
Muslim Vikings — Abuses of History
Why did a flimsy interpretation of a small artefact from provincial Sweden seem so important to the English-language world’s most powerful news outlets?
Blake Smith
· 5 min read
Identitarianism Is Splintering Democracy
Now, let’s consider for a moment the practical consequences of this theory for our representative democracy.
Max Diamond
· 5 min read
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and Violence
We should work to devise effective solutions to continue that progress, rather resorting to using all men as scapegoats for the violence that remains.
Gideon Scopes
· 14 min read
Mindfulness — Nobody Really Knows, and That's the Problem
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
Nicholas T Van Dam and Nick Haslam
· 5 min read
The Oppression Flag — The Quarterback Whose Aim Was Untrue
But is it “oppression”? There has been a tendency in recent years to water down definitions of certain words and then to misapply them.
Susan Lehman
· 9 min read
Liberals Are Turning Against the Internet
The bonds of nationalism, ethnicity, and religion would either wither away or perhaps allow numerous tribes to co-exist in and open and tolerant multicultural setting.
Leon Hadar
· 11 min read
Best of the Web — October 22, 2017
Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Nasty, Brutish, and Fat: Of Hobbes and Harvey Weinstein John Podhoretz, Commentary The Sam Kriss Problem Cathy Young, Medium Unintended Consequences of Sexual Harassment Scandals Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times Culture and Civilization Manners and Political Life George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures Teenage Wasteland
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform
“We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.”
Hal Conick
· 6 min read
Free Speech Needs Boundaries to Survive
It wouldn’t be misleading to say that the greatest threat to free speech today comes from free speech itself.
Wessie du Toit
· 6 min read