It's Not Important to Defund Identity Culture
If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts?
Reilly Smethurst
· 7 min read
The Sense of an Ending — How the Wired Brain Produces False Memories
We all have our own narratives of life. You have a “version” of that life that is a story you tell to yourself and others, about what your life has been.
Lauren Knott
· 4 min read
Citing a Scientific Study Is Not the End of the Argument
A single study is rarely anything more than suggestive, and often it takes many replications under a variety of circumstances to provide strong justification for a conclusion.
Jonathan Anomaly, Brian Boutwell
· 7 min read
The Crucible of the Application Process
These alterations would ostensibly bolster my chances of being accepted to and receiving funds for graduate programs.
Dillon Bowen
· 14 min read
Anti-Russian Hysteria, American Hypocrisy, and the Risk of Nuclear Confrontation
“Things will work out fine between the U.S.A. and Russia. At the right time everyone will come to their senses & there will be lasting peace!”
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Denying Encryption to Terrorists Is a Fantasy
The Home Office could demand more surveillance abilities for law enforcement, but here it is difficult to see what they could ask for that they don’t already have.
Matthew Mott
· 5 min read
Companies Shed Degree Requirements to Promote Merit and Qualifications
When companies demand more and more degrees for very basic jobs, they cut off access for unskilled workers to break into the job market.
Joshua Krook
· 4 min read
Laura Kipnis, Rape Culture, and the Disappearance of Sex
The net effect is a chilling of casual sexual interactions, especially amongst young people. And so, why is anyone surprised? And why doesn’t the media want to talk about it?
Michael Aaron
· 8 min read
The Rhetorical Trap at the Heart of the Neurosexism Debate
The Motte and Bailey Doctrine has been a successful rhetorical device for anti-sex difference academics and authors for some time now, but it is beginning to fray at the edges.
Claire Lehmann, Debra Soh
· 7 min read
Review: Inglorious Empire — British India by Shashi Tharoor
All the European powers combined didn’t manage to kill that many people throughout all Asia during their entire colonial histories.
Sumantra Maitra
· 11 min read
The De-Professionalisation of the Academy
Just to be clear, most of my faculty colleagues are well-educated, bright, and dedicated teachers. Some are also worthy scholars or creative authors.
Alex Southwell
· 10 min read
Reviving Essentialism — Scientific Straw Men
In fact—it’s even more interesting than that. Multiple matings do (perhaps surprisingly) benefit females in all sorts of ways across all sort of species.
Robert King
· 10 min read
Q and A on the Syrian Airstrike with Sumantra Maitra
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Epigenetics Has Become Dangerously Fashionable
“Many of our expert epigenetics research colleagues are deeply embarrassed by the warm, uncritical response their work has attracted from the social sciences,”
Brian Boutwell, Conor Barnes
· 6 min read
How Did Islam Become Toxic in the West?
The kernel of an explanation lies in the fact that the majority think that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy and the Western way of life.
Rumy Hasan
· 10 min read