Using Social Media Scientifically
Seeking viewpoint diversity brings us to the final way to use social media scientifically: keeping our information channels open as best we can.
Andrew Glover
· 6 min read
On Parenting and Parents
Their accomplishment was huge; not because they moulded me into the man that I am today. No, their accomplishment was even greater.
Brian Boutwell
· 5 min read
Why Powerful People Fail to Stop Bad Behaviour by Their Underlings
Although the failure to stop an unethical practice is often attributed to character problems such as greed, sexism or the relentless pursuit of self-interest, our explanation is subtler.
Jessica A Kennedy and Cameron Anderson
· 6 min read
On Betrayal by the Left — Talking with Ex-Muslim Sarah Haider
There’s nothing to do but keep on going, or else nothing will change. If we allow these threats, these fears, to shut us down, things won’t change.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
Censorship-Free Social Media — The Next Big Thing or Just Another Echo Chamber?
One of the forefathers of the modern internet, John Gilmore, famously remarked that the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
Matthew Mott
· 6 min read
A Conservative Defence of Refugee Rights
We should be promoting a response that saves lives, defends human freedom, acknowledges our responsibilities, and honours our liberal history.
Charlie Peters
· 6 min read
Is Hayek's Moral Vision Compatible with Democracy?
As a young man the great economist was influenced by positivist circles in his native Austria. He expressed no faith or belief in God, and adopted a scientific materialism.
David Peterson
· 6 min read
Why British Academics Are Guilty of Groupthink
But anti-Brexit academics no longer appear able to differentiate between their own personal investment in the EU and the progressive social values they also claim to uphold.
Paul A Taylor
· 4 min read
Money Laundering for the Soul — The Unbearable Ease of Moral Self-Exoneration
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read
Methods Behind the Campus Madness
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
Sociology's Stagnation
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
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