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Quillette Podcast 1 - Jordan Peterson on the Dreadful Attraction of Utopian Ideas

In Quillette‘s first official podcast, associate editor Toby Young talks to Dr Jordan Peterson about The Coddling of the American Mind, his plans to set up a new university, and the baffling resilience of hard Left ideology.

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8 Nov 2018 · 1 min read

The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond

The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokal’s mockery of postmodernist scholarship.

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1 Oct 2018 · 16 min read

Wrongspeak

Wrongspeak is an all-new podcast featuring two Toronto-based political commentators committed to telling stories about “the things we believe to be true but cannot say.” Its mission is to push listeners past received wisdom, follow the evidence, and open up a fearless but constructive dialogue on important issues. Jonathan Kay

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14 May 2018 · 1 min read

Steven Pinker: Counter-Enlightenment Convictions are 'Surprisingly Resilient'

What are some of the classic experiments in psychology that you think an educated person should know about?

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20 Apr 2018 · 7 min read

Books to Read in 2018

Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker “Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headlines and prophecies of doom, which play to our psychological biases…” Read more at Amazon. The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt “The generation now coming of age has been taught three

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1 Jan 2018 · 4 min read

Best of the Web, 18 December 2017

In Memoriam: Remembering Christopher Hitchens Douglas Murray, The Spectator European Anti-Semitism: The Uncomfortable Truth About Swedish Anti-Semitism Paulina Neuding, New York Times U. S. Politics: Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle For Self-Preservation Maggie Haberman, Glenn Thrush, Peter Baker, New York Times #MeToo: Why the #MeToo Movement Should Be Ready For

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16 Dec 2017 · 1 min read

"Problematic and In Poor Taste"

What effect does the conceptualization of the document have upon editorial practice?

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11 Dec 2017 · 9 min read

Best of the Web, 9 December 2017

Education: Elite colleges are making it easy for conservatives to dislike them Jack Goldsmith and Adrian Vermeule, Washington Post Free Speech, Personified Peter Salovey, New York Times Race and Racism: The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism Olivia Goldhill, Quartz Maybe We Should Just Shut

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9 Dec 2017 · 1 min read

Best of the Web, 26 November 2017

Education – Lindsay Shepherd and Wilfrid Laurier University, Heal Thyself Editorial, Globe and Mail Lindsay Shepherd and the Potential for Heterodoxy at Wilfrid Laurier University Raffi Grinberg, Heterodox Academy The Radical Left’s Apologia for Evil The Charles Manson Fallacy Paul Berman, Tablet The West’s Leftist Male ‘Intellectuals’ Who Traffic

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26 Nov 2017 · 1 min read

Are Women Really Victims? Four Women Weigh In

Women can be victims. In this world, there are violent, exploitative people willing to use and abuse their fellow human beings.

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22 Nov 2017 · 9 min read

Best of the Web, November 21, 2017

Sex and Gender Children Are Victims in the Latest Identity-Driven Culture War, Leading Article, The Economist The Alt-Right The Making of an American Nazi Luke O’Brien, The Atlantic Education Higher Education’s Deeper Sickness John M Ellis, Wall Street Journal The Power Rule – Review of ‘Free Speech on Campus’

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18 Nov 2017 · 1 min read

Best of the Web, November 13, 2017

Science Male Mammoths Died in ‘Silly Ways’ More Often Than Females, Study Finds Nicholas St. Fleur, The New York Times Can Brain Scans Curb the Rising Rate of Suicide? Susan Pinker, Wall Street Journal Art Why We’re Not Getting Another Andy Warhol Any Time Soon James Tarmy, Bloomberg News

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12 Nov 2017 · 1 min read

Best of the Web, November 05, 2017

Education The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country Chris Bodenner, The Atlantic ‘As difficult as it is, it’s important we discuss the part played by genes in cognitive ability’ Dr Kathryn Asbury, Tes Too Many Colleges Flunk Trump 101 Frank Bruni, The New York Times

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4 Nov 2017 · 1 min read

Best of the Web, October 29, 2017

Russian Revolution Centenary One Hundred Years of Insanity Paul Berman, Tablet Social Media Moral Outrage in the Digital Age M J Crocket, Nature.com Education and Free Inquiry Harvard Returns to Its Puritan Roots Jonathan Marks, Commentary Freedom of Expression on Campus: An Overview of Some Recent Surveys Eugene Volokh,

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29 Oct 2017 · 1 min read

Best of the Web, October 22nd, 2017

Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Nasty, Brutish, and Fat: Of Hobbes and Harvey Weinstein John Podhoretz, Commentary The Sam Kriss Problem Cathy Young, Medium Unintended Consequences of Sexual Harassment Scandals Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times Culture and Civilization Manners and Political Life George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures Teenage Wasteland

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22 Oct 2017 · 1 min read