Reappraising Samuel Huntington's 'Clash of Civilisations' The biggest threat to human civilisation is not from some random weirdos blowing themselves up. The biggest threat is neither solely cultural or economic, but a hybrid of the two. Sumantra Maitra 20 Oct 2016 · 7 min read
Fleeing Theocracy: An Asylum Seeker's Defence of the West With the ongoing migrant crisis emanating from the Muslim world and as an asylum seeker himself. AR Devine 14 Oct 2016 · 7 min read
Time to Draw the Line in the Sand on Trigger Warnings The first thing to note in this context is that PTSD is extremely rare, even among trauma victims. Mark Fabian 12 Oct 2016 · 5 min read
Why Are Rates of Mental Illness Soaring Among Young Women? The world is theirs for the taking — only a significant proportion are, it seems, too anxious, depressed and traumatised to take advantage. Joanna Williams 4 Oct 2016 · 5 min read
A Defence of Lionel Shriver: Identity Politicians Would Kill Literature if They Could Shriver took aim at the devotees of identity politics, who occupy and conquer today’s university campuses. Timothy Cootes 20 Sep 2016 · 5 min read
Review: Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance Through it he tells the story of hillbillies, impoverished immigrants who came from Scotland and Ireland in the eighteenth century to settle in the American south. Irene Ogrizek 19 Sep 2016 · 4 min read
Five Stars or Nothing Ratings and written consumer reviews are important. In markets, they alleviate information asymmetry. Harry Lehmann 17 Sep 2016 · 6 min read
Risky Business: Public Health and the Culture of Crisis The goal of public health is ostensibly primary prevention: this means a focus on anticipating, (rather than treating), disease, disorder, and injury. Jaime Anne Earnest 14 Sep 2016 · 8 min read
Doing Good Better — William MacAskill MacAskill seeks to convince that not only are we in the developed world in a position to do a tremendous amount of good, but that our approach to doing good is itself tremendously important. Keiran Harris 13 Sep 2016 · 6 min read
The Paradox of Democracy The entire idea of democracy is predicated on two essential assumptions, that humans will value knowledge, and humans will decide on the basis of rationality. Sumantra Maitra 10 Sep 2016 · 7 min read
The Virtues of Inwardness: Reclaiming the Life of the Mind in a Politicized World Perhaps our belief that the intellectual is synonymous with the political is less an eternal fact of human existence than a symptom of our own hyper-politicized times. James Walker 29 Aug 2016 · 11 min read
What I Learned In My Women’s Studies Classes Oppression does indeed exist. But, oppression is complicated, far more complicated than can be distilled in an undergraduate academic setting. Toni Airaksinen 26 Aug 2016 · 4 min read
Daily Life's Boy-Bashing Clickbait Reaches New Low It might just be that casual prejudice has become so commonplace that many of us don’t even notice it anymore. Claire Lehmann 17 Aug 2016 · 4 min read
What Experts Do and Don't Know Humans around the world have knowledge about many things. Some of it is the kind one might write essays about, or learn about in graduate courses at university. Brendon Brewer 27 Jul 2016 · 7 min read
"Like" This Essay — The Case Against Social Media Social media isn’t the cause of these crises in our culture; rather, there is a sense that it has betrayed its higher purpose. Timothy Cootes 17 Jul 2016 · 6 min read
