How Criminologists Who Study Biology are Shunned by Their Field Biosocial criminologists endure reputational attacks often. The field of criminology is not an especially cordial place to work. Brian Boutwell 13 Nov 2015 · 11 min read
What Drives Academics Who Oppose Free Speech? The tyranny of confirmation bias and the fanaticism of its enforcers are not only a disaster for academics themselves. Jamie Palmer 10 Nov 2015 · 7 min read
Time to Go Deeper on Blockchain Blockchain is important because it provides a way to communicate electronically that mimics face-to-face transacting in the physical world. Harry Lehmann 8 Nov 2015 · 5 min read
The Paradox of Female Happiness The decline in female subjective wellbeing was found to cut across both class and race and held true for women of all ages, with children and without. Claire Lehmann 2 Nov 2015 · 4 min read
When Safe Spaces Collide with Germaine Greer Strident, inflammatory, provocative, opinionated – in numerous ways, Greer is difficult to like. She annihilates men and belittles other women, shooting down feminist allies from Friedan to Weldon. Emma C Williams 2 Nov 2015 · 5 min read
Three Sources of Political Polarisation It is puzzling how smart people can diverge so much on political issues. Especially when their lines of reasoning are completely delineated, covering much of the arguments in dispute. Jazi Zilber 2 Nov 2015 · 3 min read
Why I am a Eustonite Why I'm pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and support for universal human rights. Tomiwa Owolade 31 Oct 2015 · 4 min read
Feminism Must be Reclaimed from Radicals Despite her assertions, Marcotte’s description of ‘radical feminism’ is simply a dumbed-down, euphemistic trope of what radical feminism actually was. Claire Lehmann 29 May 2015 · 4 min read
Our Generation Did Not Invent Political Correctness, But We Can Fight It The problem with P.C. is that it constrains the questions that we feel we can ask both of ourselves, and our superiors. It allows orthodoxy to creep in (as it always does). Claire Lehmann 20 Mar 2015 · 5 min read
Bad Feminism Humanities graduates, who specialize in snark, but not much else, now claim to speak on all women’s behalf. Claire Lehmann 5 Mar 2014 · 4 min read
Lifestyle Feminism, Because You're Worth It Conflicting and contradictory messages about modern feminine identity inflames ambivalence. Claire Lehmann 20 Oct 2013 · 5 min read