On Truth and Beauty The model was indeed full-figured, and her presence will come as a kind of reassurance to anyone who today considers themselves overweight. Derek Hopper 4 Mar 2017 · 4 min read
Why Social Scientists Should Not Participate in the March for Science Why? For one, there is very little political and ideological diversity in the social sciences. Clay Routledge 3 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
Political Animals: The Limits of Labels and Why We Must Overcome Them It’s about vision and seeing principles through action. It’s about creativity and intuition blended with pragmatism and fact. Above all, politics is what we make of it. Theo Zenou 2 Mar 2017 · 9 min read
Review: The New Philistines Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear. Matthew Stewart 23 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
Our Age of Empathy The feeling of helplessness that arises from passively consuming distant events is now central to the relationship of the individual to the world. Wessie du Toit 23 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
On Meaning, Identity Politics and Bias in the Academy — An Interview with Clay Routledge Claire Lehmann 23 Feb 2017 · 13 min read
Yassmin Abdel-Magied: The Woman On Whom Everything Is Lost The most charitable conclusion would be that she is either dishonest or deluded. Timothy Cootes 20 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
A Good Word for the Contemptible Straight White Male Nowadays, it’s morally and intellectually permissible to denigrate a group of people based on skin colour and gender, so long as they’re white and male. Timothy Cootes 19 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible. Andrew Glover 16 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Totalitarianism Rising As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion. Gregory Gorelik 13 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
Why Growth Most Often Occurs When We Fall Apart I find this theory to be a very elegant explanation of human potential and the process of growth and change. Michael Aaron 12 Feb 2017 · 6 min read
The Truth About Propaganda The term propaganda has its origins in the 17th century efforts of the Catholic Church to propagate its views and stem the rise of Protestantism. Noam Shpancer 6 Feb 2017 · 9 min read
Free Speech and the Regressive Left — the Road Back to Reason A unified progressive opposition to Trump can come about only via a return to true progressive principles. Jeffrey Tayler 3 Feb 2017 · 11 min read
