Art and Culture

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 14 Oct 2018 · 13 min read

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 12 Oct 2018 · 5 min read

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 Oct 2018 · 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 1 Oct 2018 · 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 28 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

Headline Rhymes

Graham Verdon 28 Sep 2018 · 1 min read

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 27 Sep 2018 · 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 24 Sep 2018 · 11 min read