Harris, Lilla, and the Politics of Identity
For only then can reason ensure that the moral and social bonds of universal human brotherhood are sustained.
John R. Wood, Jr.
· 5 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 726 posts
A Plea To Trans Activists: We Can Protect Trans Rights Without Denying Biology
Critical thinking is not hate; it builds understanding and establishes foundations that are robust and can protect trans people without compromising the rights of women.
Debbie Hayton
· 8 min read
"Basketball!" Deconstruction of a Hockey Game Taunt
Perhaps there is a better remedy: alternate dispute resolution. Have the foursome meet face-to-face with Smith-Pelly (with his consent) in the presence of others. Let the taunters explain what they meant.
Steven Lewis
· 14 min read
"Which Side Are You On?"
This question was robotically intoned by a dozen or so students led by a young woman in a ‘Stay Woke’ jacket.
Andy Ngo
· 7 min read
Why Jordan B Peterson Appeals to Me (And I Am on the Left)
Peterson’s critics would be helping him refine his theories and hone his argumentation, moving our cultural conceptions of human nature forward.
Alexander Blum
· 11 min read
The Tyranny of the Subjective
Among these is a preference for what have come to be called ‘traditionally marginalized narratives.
Elizabeth Finne
· 15 min read
Why They Hate Margaret Atwood
And yet, this being the bizarro world of 2018, Atwood’s role in Rak’s University of Alberta event wasn’t as a feminist heroine.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
Escaping Conformity
Conformity, broadly defined, is a tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology.
Jacob Little
· 14 min read
Incomprehension 501: Intro to Graduate School
My last book purge found me deciding the fate of Slavoj Žižek’s Tarrying With The Negative, a book I read in a class on Shakespeare and political theory.
S. A. Dance
· 9 min read
Privilege: a Term That Has Lost Its Utility
Which other voices would be promoted and approved by all, and how would they achieve that sort of prominence? How would any of this be to society’s advantage?
Genevieve Weynerowski
· 6 min read
The Academic Mob and Its Fatal Toll
“Academic Mobbing, Or How To Become Campus Tormentors,” Eve Seguin wrote, “Mobbing is social murder and, by definition, people cannot survive their own murder.”
Brad Cran
· 12 min read
Transgenderism and the Social Construction of Diagnosis
Tannehill subsequently posted the article to the Facebook page of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
Lisa Marchiano
· 10 min read
Our Search for Meaning and the Dangers of Possession
They provide deep, time-tested channels through which transpersonal energies can flow.
Lisa Marchiano
· 12 min read
Liberalism Can Succeed
The first concerns the relationship of theory to practice; the second, the relationship of liberalism to its preliberal inheritance.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 24 min read
Diversity: A Managerial Ideology
What would the government consider evidence of discrimination? How much activity counted as a good faith effort toward equal opportunity?
Darel E. Paul
· 10 min read