On Truth and Beauty
The model was indeed full-figured, and her presence will come as a kind of reassurance to anyone who today considers themselves overweight.
Derek Hopper
· 4 min read
Why Social Scientists Should Not Participate in the March for Science
Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences.
Clay Routledge
· 6 min read
How French Intellectuals Lost Their Faith
Ben Sixsmith
· 6 min read
Political Animals — The Limits of Labels and Why We Must Overcome Them
It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it.
Theo Zenou
· 9 min read
Review: The New Philistines
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
Matthew Stewart
· 6 min read
Our Age of Empathy
The feeling of helplessness that arises from passively consuming distant events is now central to the relationship of the individual to the world.
Wessie du Toit
· 6 min read
On Meaning, Identity Politics and Bias in the Academy — An Interview with Clay Routledge
Claire Lehmann
· 13 min read
How Social Constructionism Created the Sex Addiction Model
And unfortunately, that problem is usually one which is socially constructed, rather than scientifically valid.
Michael Aaron
· 6 min read
Yassmin Abdel-Magied — The Woman on Whom Everything Is Lost
The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
The Runaway Executive
‘Everyone else has to march up East Street in the heat,’ he’d go on, ‘or make arrangements with my pupil’ (that pupil was me). ‘Why shouldn’t they?’
Helen Dale
· 5 min read
The Battle Over "American Carnage"
If it is important to show commonalities in black and white life in America, are we succeeding in doing so?
Dan Subotnik
· 5 min read
The Hypocrisy of Sweden's Feminist Foreign Policy
Sweden was the first state to acknowledge Palestine, antagonising what is the only democratic power in Middle East and steadfast Western ally, Israel.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male
Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Galápagos Giant Tortoises Make a Comeback Thanks to Innovative Conservation Strategies
With critical support from nonprofits like the Galapagos Conservancy and advice from an international team of conservation scientists.
James P Gibbs
· 6 min read
Is Crime Genetic? Scientists Don't Know Because They're Afraid to Ask
What if much of what we know about the causes of crime is either deeply flawed or flat out wrong?
Brian Boutwell, Conor Barnes
· 7 min read