Ronan Farrow’s Botched Journalism is Troubling. The Response to It Has Been Worse
The #MeToo era has been a time for all journalists to re-examine their professional standards.
Jonathan Kay
· 14 min read
Activism
A collection of 251 posts
A Closer Look at 'White Fragility' Theory
Why might a social psychological concept gain such broad traction despite being poorly defined and weakly researched? Perhaps because it is true.
Valerie Tarico
· 10 min read
An Alternative Feminist Perspective on Abortion
The fight to enshrine the right to unrestricted abortion in law is based on ideological feminism’s two main premises: victimization and what I call “undifferentiation.”
Silvia G. Poratelli
· 12 min read
My Former Life as a Radical
They believe in the perfectibility of man in their own image: a combination of unscrupulous optimism and narcissism.
Gerfried Ambrosch
· 11 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
Adam Ellwanger
· 13 min read
Mark Zuckerberg and the Changing Civil Rights Movement
The truth is therefore that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading of civil rights history with respect to its relationship to free speech is closer to the mark than that of many who have inherited the mantle of the movement.
John R. Wood, Jr.
· 6 min read
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.
Matt Ridley
· 11 min read
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
Steven D. Hales
· 10 min read
Please Stop Calling Yourself a 'Feminist Badass'
Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.
Meghan Daum
· 9 min read
The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Drew Pavlou
· 6 min read
Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read