Haidt and others formed the Heterodox Academy, which is dedicated to arguing for a more intellectually diverse academy and now has almost 900 members.
“That the discipline of philosophy trains students in highly transferable skills is evidenced by the fact that philosophy majors perform exceptionally well on the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.”
The escalating political rhetoric on both sides has led Pat Buchanan to ask openly what some on the American Right have been pondering privately for a while.
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Recommendations to drink eight glasses of water each day and eat no more than 2,000 calories daily are pretty much common knowledge.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.