Purity and Tolerance: The Contradictory Morality of College Campuses Moral cultures reflect their social structures, and victimhood culture is no different: It occurs in a context where there is cultural diversity, social equality, and stable authority. Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning 2 May 2016 · 7 min read
Feminism Blinds Students to the Truth About Men Are women so smothered by the blanket of victimhood that we canât concede that men face issues too? Isnât the hallmark of intersectionality finding victimhood everywhere? Toni Airaksinen 18 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
Harold Bloom and Aesthetics in an Age of Piety Bloom believed that a new âTheocratic Ageâ was on the horizon â a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung. James Walker 8 Apr 2016 · 6 min read
On Opinions and Entitlement The claim that we are âentitled to our opinionâ is a professed appeal to the principles of liberty and free speech, when in reality it undermines those principles. Emma C Williams 3 Apr 2016 · 5 min read
Bad Faith: Sam Harris, Omer Aziz, and Islam The removal of Saddam Husseinâs dictatorship, he argued, would be a deliverance, and the nobility of the project to help build a democracy in its place ought to be self-evident. Jamie Palmer 29 Mar 2016 · 13 min read
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the cityâs history. Heather Mac Donald 21 Mar 2016 · 12 min read
The Great Diversity Scam If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, theyâd have focused on these issues long ago. Stephen Beard 10 Mar 2016 · 3 min read
The Bermuda Triangle of Science Quantitative genetic work on human behavior has also had its time in the spotlight as arguably the most controversial subject in science. Brian Boutwell 10 Mar 2016 · 9 min read
How To Have An Opinion Worth Hearing I listen to you time and time again, while you tell me just whatâs right⊠Brian Boutwell 3 Mar 2016 · 10 min read
Female Genital Cutting: Harm, Human Rights and the Possibility of a Sex-Neutral Approach In this age of sexual equality and non-discrimination, it increasingly looks hypocritical and inconsistent to support both the legitimacy and legality of male circumcision and, at the same time, the unacceptability and illegality of FGC. Robert Darby 3 Mar 2016 · 16 min read
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University To say that Columbia has a ârape cultureâ is not just inaccurate, but it suggests that Columbia somehow is exclusionary not just in terms of academic elitism, but in the number of sexual assaults that happen too. Toni Airaksinen 25 Feb 2016 · 5 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries. Geoffrey Lehmann 21 Feb 2016 · 20 min read
Taking the Wonder Out of Science Education A couple of years ago, the London Science Museum produced its own travelling act for children called âThe Energy Showâ. Emma C Williams 20 Feb 2016 · 7 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit There will always be things that we havenât figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.â But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect. Brian D Earp 15 Feb 2016 · 8 min read
Breaking Up With Libertarianism After discovering the work of Dr Williams, I parked myself under his learning tree and began to soak up as much information as I could. William Blake 13 Feb 2016 · 12 min read