Money Laundering for the Soul: The Unbearable Ease of Moral Self-Exoneration
We do this with surprising ease, often basing sustained bouts of deliberate nastiness on nebulous reasoning.
Noam Shpancer
· 9 min read
Art and Culture
A collection of 718 posts
Methods Behind the Campus Madness
Then institutions of higher learning will again be a place for what they were originally meant, the exchange of ideas and verifiable knowledge.
Sumantra Maitra
· 7 min read
Sociology's Stagnation
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
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 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
· 6 min read
How French Intellectuals Lost Their Faith
Ben Sixsmith
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 6 min read
On Meaning, Identity Politics and Bias in the Academy — An Interview with Clay Routledge
Claire Lehmann
· 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
· 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
· 5 min read
Terrorism Denial on the Left
Claiming that the war on terrorism is 'fictitious' is conspiratorial and irresponsible.
Andrew Glover
· 5 min read
Totalitarianism Rising
As time went on, once-unquestioned assumptions about free speech and due process were attacked into oblivion.
Gregory Gorelik
· 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
· 6 min read