Art & Culture
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The Unspoken Homophobia Propelling Trans Ideology in Children
Nowadays, every left-leaning parent and educator seems content to take a child’s word at face value if they say they were born in the wrong body, not realizing that by doing so, an important conversation is being brushed aside.
Consent Isn't Everything — and Sex Is Not Like Tea
Some of the enjoyments of sex have to do with a reflective enjoyment of the experience.
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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.
Representation and the Communitarianisation of Cinema
Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.
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.
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.
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.
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Linda Gottfredson's Scientific Keynote Was Cancelled — Why?
A profound discomfort with empirical findings emerging from intelligence research lies at the heart of the disinvitation.
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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.
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.
What The Coddling of the American Mind Gets Wrong
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.