Cordelia Fine's Testosterone Rex — A Review
The point is rather that, potentially, even quite marked sex differences in the brain may have little consequence for behaviour.
Stuart Ritchie
· 6 min read
Books
A collection of 280 posts
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
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
Review: Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream — Sara Goldrick-Rab
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 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
· 4 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
· 6 min read
Review: Islam and the Future of Tolerance
The doctrine of inerrancy, on the other hand, places intolerable constraints on polite conversation, our only known alternative to violence.
Oliver Waters
· 5 min read
Authenticity and Experience: The Problem of Identity Politics in Literature
Our culture, dominated by the 140 character limit, is particularly apt at creating tempests in teacups, each evoking an explosion of drama that exhausts itself in a mere matter of days (or in some cases a matter of hours).
James Walker
· 10 min read
Book Review: Happiness by Design – Experiential Self vs Evaluative Self Explained
Dolan’s proposal is that shifting our attention away from constructed narratives to actual experiences is likely to make us a lot happier.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 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
· 4 min read