Philosophers Smear One of Their Own for Gender Heresy
Why do philosophers so often uncritically support the conventional views of the time and place in which they find themselves?
Nathan Cofnas
· 7 min read
Free Speech
A collection of 236 posts
To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
The Death of Political Cartooning—And Why It Matters
Many nominally democratic political regimes practice de facto censorship in regard to material criticizing their populist rulers.
Jack Reilly
· 12 min read
An 'Anti-Racist' Mob Set Its Sights on Humble ‘Squampton.’ Here’s How the Town Fought Back
Though the population is largely white, Squamish has steadily become more diverse in recent years, and now boasts a thriving Sikh community.
Brian Vincent
· 18 min read
On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose
The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.
Jason D. Hill
· 8 min read
Black and White in the Classroom
I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.
Lola Jean Benjamin
· 4 min read
Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
Resisting the Mourner's Veto
Reasonable debate and discussion then becomes impossible as activists make unfalsifiable but furiously emotive claims about alleged threats to their safety and wellbeing amid much weeping and claims of exhaustion and mental fragility.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?
Tech companies are not equipped to rule on messy and complex disputes over truth.
Samuel E. Miller
· 7 min read
Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction
Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
I’m a Professor from an Immigrant Family. Please Stop Telling Me That My University Is Racist
What’s worse, anyone who points out the nonsensical and performative aspects of these presidential letters will be gaslit for his troubles—this, in a supposed citadel of logic and learning.
Theodore Pennington
· 7 min read
Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault
Brian Stewart
· 7 min read
How The Intercept Abandoned Its Truth-Seeking Mission—And Lost Its Best Journalist
In the case of the media, we’ve had a running social experiment underway since 2015 that helps us answer this question.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read
Bruce Gilley vs Cancel Culture
In 2019, Gilley found himself rebuffed by his own university when he proposed a course on “Conservative Political Thought.”
Noah Carl
· 9 min read
How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
Vincent Harinam and David Kopel
· 11 min read