A collection of 91 posts
Many argue that American colleges and universities are the envy of the world. Indeed, people from all over the globe flock here to pursue their educational goals.
Politics / Foreign Policy The Alt-Right’s Chickens Come Home to Roost David French, National Review The Liberal Crack Up Mark Lilla, The Wall Street Journal Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Face Off Raising Possibility of Accidental War John Kehoe, Australian Financial Review Why Are the Media Sympathetic to the
Culture In Defence of the Bad, White Working Class Shannon Burns, Meanjin Gender Imbalances are Mostly Not Due to Offensive Attitudes SlateStarCodex Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering Indrek Wichman, James G Martin Center for Academic Renewal Science National Identity Eases Cross-Cultural Trust Problems Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
Culture A Secularist vs. the Progressive Faith Tom Wilson, Commentary Liu Xiaobo and Twitter’s Theatre of Radical Cruelty Jamie Palmer, Tablet Magazine Science Don’t Believe in God? Maybe You’ll try U.F.Os Clay Routledge, The New York Times First Human Embryos Edited in U.S. Steve
CultureRichard Dawkins deplatformed at a book talk in Berkeley for “abusive speech” about Islam on Twitter Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True Why it’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students that Words are Violence Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff, The Atlantic Aliens, Antisemitism and Academia Remi Adekoya & Landon
Evergreen State fiasco drew national attention, and since then it appears that the college has only chosen to double down on the insanity.
Despite his worldwide reputation as the creator of nightmare futures, many people are unaware of Burgess’s credentials as an outspoken opponent of literary censorship.
We know that genes are not necessarily deterministic. They are probabilistic and we are learning how to change genes and their functional expression.
We need a strategy that insulates us from hate, no matter what empirical research uncovers about the world.
Most modernists could be classified as centrists (either left or right-leaning), classical liberals and libertarians.
“The impulse to think that environmental sources of differences are less threatening than genetic ones is natural but illusory.” Charles Murray
The desire to censor is not entirely impossible to understand. When you encounter an idiotic YouTube comment or forum post.
ABC canceled one of its most popular shows, “Last Man Standing” starring conservative comedian Tim Allen.
We would like to increase our funding to be able to pay all of our contributors and support the editors to pursue the highest standards of editorial oversight they can.
If taxpayers from both the Right and the Left refuse to fund identity culture, what exactly will remain of the arts?