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.
Rosalind Arden
· 5 min read
Art and Culture
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Graham Verdon
· 1 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 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
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
· 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
· 8 min read
At 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
Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex
The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’
Renee Gerlich
· 8 min read
Anthony Bourdain vs the Tyranny of Wellness
The cult of wellness commands: Thou shalt not contaminate the sacred body.
Jenai Engelhard
· 5 min read
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Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
The Preachers of the Great Awokening
Sinners are threatened not by an angry god, but by a righteous mob.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 13 min read
Believe Some Women
#MeToo demands that all women must be believed — except where their stories upset the prevailing narrative.
Karen Yossman
· 6 min read
Breaking the Norm
We now treat people who dissent from the progressive orthodoxy about certain offenses as being no different from the people who actually committed the offenses in the first place.
Jamie Kilstein
· 8 min read
Against Thank-You Cards
Grinding out note after note of identical, monotonous pro forma gratitude is not a pleasurable pastime, nor even a merely dull one; it is a good old-fashioned nuisance.
Daniel Payne
· 5 min read