Science Goes Rogue
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 8 min read
Activism
A collection of 251 posts
Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 21 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read
The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’
Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.
Frances Widdowson
· 13 min read
Towards Practical Empowerment
In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.
Erec Smith
· 10 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology
As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America
We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us.
Glenn C. Loury
· 20 min read
A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot
The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.
Michael Humeniuk
· 12 min read
Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice
Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts
When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.
Dorian S. Abbot
· 8 min read
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 16 min read
BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements
Is BirthStrike a luxury belief?
William Costello and Freya India, Freya India, William Costello
· 8 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You
Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.
Minnie Doe
· 10 min read
On Sex and Gender, The New England Journal of Medicine Has Abandoned Its Scientific Mission
The very idea of “a dichotomous sex-classification system” is dubious, the authors believe.
Colin Wright
· 14 min read
An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back
Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.
Brian Vincent
· 18 min read