Lived Experiences Aren’t Special
Lived experiences are often vividly used by progressive activists as evidence of widespread injustice, accompanied with a call for action and social change.
Tim Hsiao
· 7 min read
Activism
A collection of 248 posts
The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann
The reason Kaufmann has been targeted is simply that he departs from woke ideology on issues like race, immigration and freedom of speech.
Noah Carl
· 5 min read
How Liberal Elites Use Race to Keep Workers Divided—And Justify Class-Based Inequities
Liberals have abandoned history, because they have to believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary working class, at the same time.
Catherine Liu
· 6 min read
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them
Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.
Karin Litzcke
· 16 min read
Lesbians Aren’t Attracted to a Female ‘Gender Identity.’ We’re Attracted to Women
Two such orientations are heterosexuality and homosexuality. They are defined in terms of specific patterns of attraction.
Kathleen Stock
· 13 min read
Cancelling Comedians While the World Burns—A Review
“Cancel culture” remains a contested term, and the chapter devoted to this phenomenon will probably attract the most discussion and controversy.
Adam Wakeling
· 7 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Zachary Robert Caverley
· 12 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
Angus Fox
· 17 min read
Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office
One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed
Sally Satel
· 11 min read
Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View
I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with
Stella O’Malley
· 15 min read
When Journalism Blurs Into Activism—A Canadian Case Study
This all began with an imaginary teachers’ manual. It ended with us challenging Canada’s self-described “national newspaper” about a range of stories in which ideologically-driven narratives seemed to trump fact. We are two long-in-the-tooth Canadian journalists who began our careers in the 1980s. We’ve written investigative pieces about
Paul Benedetti and Wayne MacPhail
· 12 min read
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is
Samuel Kronen
· 24 min read
When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings?
Minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by police. Almost immediately, enraged protestors gathered outside police headquarters. “Say Her Name!” they chanted. The New York Times reported that the girl’
Arthur Jeon
· 14 min read
The Hard Problems of Vegetarianism
Humans are gratuitously inflicting pain and suffering on intelligent, sentient creatures for no other reason than because they enjoy the taste of their meat, the texture of their skin, or the softness of their fur.
Daniel Issing
· 12 min read
The Ugly History of Rape Panics
As sexual violence was reaching historic lows, the narrative was demanding the opposite. The definition of sexual violence began to be broadened, and so the numbers grew.
Jerry Barnett
· 11 min read