At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Activism
A collection of 244 posts
Weaponizing Words: Language and Oppression
Language does not form our view of the world and its inhabitants in any meaningful sense.
Robert D. King
· 10 min read
The Misguided Campaign Against Journalistic Objectivity
Even historians, who have many years to consider the object of their study, inhabit “the twilight of probability.” How can those journalists tasked with writing “history’s first draft” imagine that they know which way true “harm” lies?
Lorraine Clark
· 7 min read
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Keeping Male Bodies Out of Women's Rugby
World Rugby had to come to terms with reality: Irrespective of hormonal intervention, male athletes are, on average, 40 percent heavier, 15 percent faster, 30 percent more powerful, and 25–50 percent stronger than their female counterparts.
Linda Blade
· 8 min read
Deception and Complicity—the Strange Case of Jessica Krug
But the real scandal—not discussed much in the media—wasn’t Krug’s decade of duplicity.
Charlotte Allen
· 9 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School
The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.
Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller
· 10 min read
How the Nonbinary Trend Hurts Those with Real Gender Dysphoria
Some nonbinary people will say that they don’t like labels such as “gay” or “lesbian” because they are binary terms; attraction to a man or a woman, even in the context of being gay, is still considered attraction to a binary gender.
Debra Soh
· 6 min read
The Dishonest and Misogynistic Hate Campaign Against J.K. Rowling
And it turns out that she was, because despite the best efforts of her critics, she hasn’t yet been truly cancelled.
Louise Perry
· 7 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
Left unrestrained, they can get completely out of hand. The sudden conformity produced by an availability cascade can result in reflexive demands for urgent government action without any proper discussion or consideration of trade-offs, consequences, or even necessity.
Matthew Blackwell
· 17 min read
Anti-Racist Structuralists and Non-Racist Culturalists
Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity.
G. Thomas Burgess
· 18 min read
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment
The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.
Rav Arora
· 14 min read
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism
By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.
Baz Edmeades
· 10 min read
Will Corporate Social-Justice Initiatives Be More Than Just a Fad?
What’s different now is that the current strain of social-justice ideology presents itself as a totalizing creed—which means that it isn’t enough for CEOs to accede to the idea of social justice as a mere boundary check on the company’s profit-seeking activities.
David Weitzner
· 9 min read
Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police
But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read