How Marcuse Made Today’s Students Less Tolerant than Their Parents
For six decades, social scientists have almost universally treated intolerance as a negative social disease.
April Kelly-Woessner
· 5 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 346 posts
The Myth of "Rape Culture" at Columbia University
To say that Columbia has a “rape culture” 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.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 5 min read
Tutors and Examiners of the Mind: German Media and the Migrant Crisis
In the wake of the Cologne crisis (as we can now rightly call it — again, without exaggeration) many worrying trends in German society came to light.
Phillip Mark McGough
· 6 min read
The Disinviting of Dawkins
When the moment arose, everyone was appalled by what he had to say and, as I recall, he quit his degree shortly after.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
The Thought Police Aren’t Administrators—They’re Us College Kids
Students at residential colleges live in an oppressively tight bubble of conformity.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
The Kids Are All Right
Humans, like all organisms, are the product of evolution. And what evolution ‘cares’ about is genetic propagation: how many genes are passed from one generation to the next.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 22 min read
Herd Mentality
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
Glenn Greenwald: Fascism's Fellow Traveller
Greenwald is never less than proud to acknowledge the considerable time he has spent as a litigator and writer defending the right of neo-Nazis to air their views.
Jamie Palmer
· 12 min read
Schools Proposing to Audit Pupils' Characters Should Mind Their Own Business
In education, where my own experience lies, a depressingly corporate tone is now the norm.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read
The Shame and the Disgrace of the Pro-Islamist Left
The dismal spectacle of radical queer activists, feminists, and sundry other progressives professing solidarity with Islamists is at once fascinating and enraging.
Jamie Palmer
· 7 min read
Je Suis George Lawlor
University life is beginning to sound like a dystopian world; hollow-eyed students hunting in packs, scouring the landscape for dissenting individuals unplugged from the matrix.
Emma C Williams
· 6 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
· 7 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
· 5 min read
A Platform for Free Thought
We aim to provide a platform for original thought and quality cultural criticism. We will feature writing from non-journalists including scientists and artists, and will strive to give writers freedom to take risks and express controversial ideas.
Claire Lehmann
· 2 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
· 5 min read