Laura Kipnis, Camille Paglia and the Redefinition of Sex
Kipnis’ cautionary tale dovetails with Camille Paglia’s collection of essays, Free Women, Free Men.
Irene Ogrizek
· 6 min read
Art and Culture
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Skepticism About White Privilege
White privilege is a central theme of the protests at Evergreen State College, University of Missouri, Yale University, and so on.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
Confessions of a Hello Kitty Killer: The Pernicious Effects of Cuteness
Ranked by concentrated cutesiness, the ‘original’ smiley faces that launched a fad and first bothered me as a kid didn’t pack the punch of what they would devolve into.
Michael Brandow
· 18 min read
Social Justice and the End of Moral Certainty
History reveals that foundational advances are few, and that subsequent to them spawn—in hydra-like fashion—many more, often arcane corollary branches of inquiry.
Thomas Varnke
· 8 min read
VOX Goes From “junk” To “no good”: That’s a Bit of Intelligent Progress
The worst that detractors can say about the podcast is that Murray and Harris prematurely endorsed the Default Hypothesis as resolved.
Richard Haier
· 6 min read
Are Liberals Dying Out?
The evidence for the heritability of psychological traits is immense.
Hrishikesh Joshi, Jonathan Anomaly
· 7 min read
Beauty, Equality, and the Problem with Calling Everything 'Sexist'
At the heart of this revolution lies the myth of the “authentic self” – the largely or entirely mutable or malleable “self-realizing” person of indifferent gender.
Steven C Munson
· 11 min read
Who's Afraid Of Jordan Peterson?
He counsels them to face the fact that life entails much suffering, and that inner and interpersonal conflict are inevitable – not the kind of thing most “satisfied customers” want to hear.
Daniel Burston
· 15 min read
Evergreen State and the Battle for Modernity
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
Michael Aaron
· 8 min read
Manchester’s Children and the Regressive Left
So adherents to an ideology constitute a race? Islam is a faith-based ideology, with nothing biologically inherent about it.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 11 min read
Paranoid Paleoconservatives
Trump’s populist campaign has energized a political fringe tendency now known as the alt-right.
Jamie Palmer
· 23 min read
Cultural Appropriation Sold Out When It Went Mainstream
Public criticism of cultural appropriation, even in its more sober and reflective manifestations, duly narrows to a couple of apparent trends.
Robert Seddon
· 6 min read
Bald Men Fighting Over a Comb: Arguments About the Classical Tradition
Most of the praise comes only from Classics teachers, or others easily impressed by a thin veneer of learning.
Sandra Kotta
· 19 min read
What Philosophers Must Learn from the Transracialism Meltdown
For years we have been hearing that political correctness is cresting, that this-or-that campus outrage represents the last straw, the turning point.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
When Accusations Lose Their Bite
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read