The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids
Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
The Masochists Who Defend Sadists: The Regressive Left in Theory and Practice
John Pilger, Michael Moore, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, and the Stop the War Coalition have shown their commitment to barbarism.
Timothy Cootes
· 17 min read
Socialism Is Worse than Capitalism—You Want a Welfare State
What is the distinction between socialism and the modern welfare state? One way to think about it is in terms of market intervention vs. post- and pre-market intervention.
Mark Fabian
· 6 min read
Springtime for Demagogues
The problem isn’t that that is completely unwarranted, it might be, it might not be. The problem is that shielding us from the truth is utterly counter-productive.
David Paxton
· 10 min read
Heritability and Why Parents (but Not Parenting) Matter
Non-additive effects don’t breed true with the same degree of fidelity—in fact these effects bust up the clean transmission of traits from parents to children (to use a sports analogy, it’s a bit like a cornerback in football deflecting the quarterback’s perfect spiral aimed at the receiver).
Brian Boutwell, Razib Khan
· 13 min read
After Cologne, Feminism Is Dead
After Cologne, feminism is dead. Europe must now focus on the more important issue of women’s rights.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 7 min read
How Capitalism and Globalization Have Made the World a Better Place
As the world has become more capitalist and more globalized, the quality of life for the average person, and especially for the average poor person, has increased substantially.
Corey Iacono
· 5 min read
I’m Not a Feminist—Even Though I Attend a Women's College
Feminism is purported to be a movement towards equality. Fair enough. Most reasonable people support that.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Business Journals Vow to Publish Studies That Prove Nothing
It will be important to see how many researchers and journals indeed opt to publish null-findings, and whether and how that affects their impact factor and ranking over time.
Ramon Wenzel
· 5 min read
Original Sin: The Sexual Motivation of Religious Extremists
This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.
Janet L Factor
· 15 min read
The Kids Are All Right
Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 22 min read
Herd Mentality
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Rape Is About Sex, Not Power
Sexual offenders of all ages prefer young victims.
Richard Felson and Richard Moran
· 5 min read
History and Memory in Syria
Sometimes it is better to write from an unconventional perspective; sometimes what is missing from the equation is a greater sense of historical understanding.
James Snell
· 5 min read
How to Find a Parenting Effect
Practically no one these days will fight you on the idea that genes and environments interact (GxE), and it is in these interactions, perhaps, that we can discover if parenting truly does impact children.
Brian Boutwell
· 17 min read