The Deal Trump Should Strike with Putin
The NATO alliance was founded in 1949 to counter Soviet military might.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 15 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left
Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Infantilising Students Post-Election
These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
Matthew Stewart
· 5 min read
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Gregory Gorelik
· 5 min read
Artificially Inflating the Threat from Russia Does Nobody Any Good
Their foreign policy record understandably looks chaotic at first glance, but we can nonetheless detect a pattern to it.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Why Growth Most Often Occurs When We Fall Apart
I find this theory to be a very elegant explanation of human potential and the process of growth and change.
Michael Aaron
· 6 min read
Negotiating Standpoints Outside the University Classroom
If universities made this negotiation route available to students as a matter of policy, campus activists won’t have to wave their signs and tread on the grass as their default action.
Daniel Tippens
· 6 min read
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Created Political Gridlock in the US
From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bill von Hippel
· 5 min read
Make Expertise Great Again
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters is finally out this year.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
The Truth About Propaganda
The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read
Dealing with the Reality That Not Everyone Can Succeed
Two traits — general intelligence and self-control — are perhaps our best individual level predictors of living a successful life.
Brian Boutwell
· 6 min read
Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School Too
These expectations can work both ways: When researchers told children that boys and girls would perform the same, boys’ academic performance improved.
David Miller
· 5 min read
The Rise of the Right and the Triumph of Rhetoric
Ben Sixsmith
· 4 min read
Free Speech and the Regressive Left — The Road Back to Reason
A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 11 min read
The Berkeley Riots and the Tyranny of the Righteous Minority
The entire narrative of the Western left is one of structural, systemic exploitation by the forces of patriarchy, economics, and social-conservatism.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read