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Graham Verdon
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Art and Culture
A collection of 759 posts
Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
While the culture-war skirmish over transgenderism typically is treated as a debate about culture or sociology, it is also a debate about the primacy of science.
Julian Vigo
· 12 min read
Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.
Oliver Whiskard
· 10 min read
The Scandal at UBC Keeps Growing—but No One Has Been Held Accountable
The school’s decision to suspend, smear and then fire Galloway on the basis of false allegations has snowballed into one of the greatest scandals in the history of Canadian education.
Jonathan Kay
· 6 min read
Keeping it Casual
Girls are taught that sex without love is a meaningless experience, boys that, as meaningless experiences go, it’s a pretty damn good one.
Steve Stewart-Williams
· 16 min read
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique
They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
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Graham Verdon
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Linda Gottfredson’s Scientific Keynote Cancelled: Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
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Graham Verdon
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The Curious Reemergence of Little Platoons
Seventy-seven percent of respondents in a recent study from Vanderbilt University rated their political opponents as “less-evolved” than members of their own party.
Alexandra Hudson
· 4 min read
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
The authors have pulled off a modern Sokal hoax. The sequel is rarely as good as the original, but in this case it was more comprehensive and more fun than Sokal’s mockery of postmodernist scholarship.
Quillette
· 16 min read
What 'The Coddling of the American Mind' Gets Wrong About Early Education
Young people are told to trust their feelings, that what doesn’t kill them makes them weaker and that the world can be divided into goodies and baddies.
Greg Ashman
· 8 min read
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Graham Verdon
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Western Civilisation "Not Welcome Here"
The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science.
Bella d'Abrera
· 8 min read
Amidst the YouTube Junkies of MythCon, I Witnessed a New Kind of Radical Centrism
This was a room full of people passionately engaged in the world of ideas. Yet in their panelist remarks and Q&A comments, few of the speakers and audience members invoked the name of any actual party, politician or even broad political movement.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read