In Defence of Anonymity
Ben Sixsmith
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Art and Culture
A collection of 780 posts
Study Philosophy to Improve Thinking—A Case of False Advertising?
“That the discipline of philosophy trains students in highly transferable skills is evidenced by the fact that philosophy majors perform exceptionally well on the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.”
Neven Sesardic
· 13 min read
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
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