Beware of Root Causes Consider this passage from a paper advocating for âroot cause analysisâ when attempting to understand and solve large-scale social problems. Andrew Glover 25 Jun 2018 · 5 min read
A Literary Inquisition: How Novelist Steven Galloway Was Smeared as a Rapist, Even as the Case Against Him Collapsed However spurious these claims proved to be as a matter of a law, they were successful in tarring Galloway and his defenders on social media. Brad Cran 21 Jun 2018 · 43 min read
Notes From an Academic Paper Mill Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so. Tammy Sheeran 20 Jun 2018 · 8 min read
The Birth of the Narcissism Revolution The Human Potential Movement had posed the Western self a question: if God is inside all of us, then doesnât it naturally follow that we are all Gods? Will Storr 16 Jun 2018 · 6 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes: China's Hip-Hop Generation The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid. Thomas Clements 13 Jun 2018 · 6 min read
The Tragedy of Australian Education The Gonski panel is the chorus and we are the audience. The play is the ongoing tragedy of Australian education. Greg Ashman 11 Jun 2018 · 13 min read
'If I Want to Hold Seminars on the Topic of Empire, I Will Do So Privately': An Interview with Nigel Biggar Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project âEthics and Empireâ was launched. Sumantra Maitra 7 Jun 2018 · 5 min read
At this Portland Bakery, White Guilt Poisons the Batter The panic provoked by accusations of racism led the bakeryâs management to issue a series of contradictory and clumsy statements. Andy Ngo 5 Jun 2018 · 15 min read
The High Price of Stale Grievances Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life? Coleman Hughes 5 Jun 2018 · 14 min read
âTired, Old Myths:â The New Republic Slanders Jung The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heerâs article, Jordan Petersonâs Tired Old Myths. Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart 1 Jun 2018 · 5 min read
Behind the Mask: Inside the Black Bloc Naps explained the color-coded, three-tiered categorization of antifa participants in the black bloc, the massive swarm of black-clothed marchers. Thomas Spoelhof 1 Jun 2018 · 9 min read
A Different Kind of Privilege The largest part of the privilege they passed on to me was the privilege of good habits, good manners, a good work ethic, and a good general philosophy of life. Hunter Baker 29 May 2018 · 5 min read
Why Sam HarrisâNot Ezra KleinâIs the One Making Space for People of Colour Source of conflict between the two best-selling authors was the extent of white privilege, and the question of how it should be accounted for in public debate Jamil Jivani 28 May 2018 · 13 min read
The Munk Debate and the Perils of Tribalism Tribalism isnât a toy and academics who think they can regulate it up and down like a set of dials to determine whoâs in which group Uri Harris 28 May 2018 · 6 min read
In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW John Nerst suggests that what is actually at issue is whether the discussion of the racial IQ gap is a matter of science or of politics. Jacob Falkovich 25 May 2018 · 13 min read
