Confusion About -Isms Is Compounding Schisms
As many of these confusions pertain to some variety of liberalism — classical, neo, libertarian — let’s start clarifying things there.
Mark Fabian
· 10 min read
Evolutionary Conflict and the Family
We should start at the beginning, which is to say, conception. That magical moment when sperm meets egg holds an important insight.
Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
Why Charlie Hebdo Was Right to Address the Brussels Attacks
Charlie Hebdo is suggesting that once individuals change their ways as a product of fear, they go down the road of sanctioning demands which impinge on other people’s rights.
Tehmina Kazi
· 5 min read
Harold Bloom and Aesthetics in an Age of Piety
Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung.
James Walker
· 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement
The claim that we are “entitled to our opinion” is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Are Stereotypes Accurate?
For some time now, the term stereotype has connoted one aspect of prejudice, and this linkage between stereotyping and prejudice isn’t altogether unfair.
Chris Martin
· 6 min read
University Feminists Are Betraying Their Movement’s Liberal Past
Feminism wasn’t always this censorious. The university feminists of today do not reflect the motives of the classical past of their movement.
Charlie Peters
· 5 min read
Criminology’s Wonderland: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About Crime Is Wrong
As we have noted before, crime is heritable. And yet, there is no crime gene.
Brian Boutwell and Kevin Beaver
· 11 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam
Notes on an illuminating and dispiriting exchange.
Jamie Palmer
· 13 min read
The Rise of Donald Trump
Trump has parlayed the fear, loathing, and restlessness of those who feel left behind by postindustrial America into an impressive presidential campaign.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 11 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.
Heather Mac Donald
· 12 min read
Why Innovation Requires Economic Freedom
Because of its emphasis on the heritability of acquired characteristics, Lysenkoism found itself at home and became an official dogma of Communist ideology.
Aaron Tao
· 5 min read
Study Suggests Society's View of Males Has Soured
“Gender Stereotypes Just As Prevalent in 2016 As In The 1980s, New Study Finds, So Maybe Things Aren’t As Great As We’d Like To Believe.”
Cathy Young
· 6 min read
Why Some Humans Developed a Taste for Milk and Some Didn't
The ability to digest dairy products as adults is likely to be adaptive owing to its increased nutritional benefits (sugars, as well as fat, protein and calcium) and milk’s role as an important drinking source in arid regions.
Giles Yeo
· 4 min read
The Great Diversity Scam
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Stephen Beard
· 3 min read