Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about. Quillette 24 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices. Angus Fox 18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read
The Sperm Count Culture War The authors all but ignore the science to focus on what they believe is more important—the ideological framing of the issue in socio-cultural discourse. Geoffrey C. Kabat 16 Jun 2021 · 13 min read
Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism? The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis. Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer 13 Jun 2021 · 15 min read
The Importance of Understanding the Nonspecific Effects of Vaccines A new strategy is required that balances authority with humility. David McLelland 9 Jun 2021 · 7 min read
Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID Taking advantage of the post-pandemic era may start with securing national health but will depend over time on creating better conditions for adaptive grassroots businesses. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 4 Jun 2021 · 11 min read
How Strong Was Taiwan’s COVID Response? Taiwan’s COVID response will likely be remembered as one of the world’s best. Ben Weinstein 1 Jun 2021 · 12 min read
Trauma and the Psychedelic Renaissance Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment. James Jeffrey 22 May 2021 · 9 min read
The Social Determinants of Health: Critique and Implications This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention. Zachary Robert Caverley 13 May 2021 · 11 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part IV: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering The recent spike in trans self-identification has made things even more difficult for these parents, because gender-related body dysmorphia often appears alongside other kinds of physically focused anxieties. Angus Fox 21 Apr 2021 · 17 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
The Fear and Fantasy of COVID-19 Vaccination The politicization and generation of narratives surrounding the coronavirus (and ensuing governmental responses) funneled information flow into partitions based on political affiliation. Iosif M. Gershteyn 10 Apr 2021 · 7 min read
Diversity, Inclusion, and Academic Freedom: The Case of Gender Biology But it is sad to see established facts now suppressed along with undesirable beliefs and opinions. And to see our institutions of higher learning being led to this kind of neo-obscurantism in the name of enlightened social attitudes. Constantin Polychronakos 5 Apr 2021 · 10 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID ‘Cold Spot’ and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It? Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 30 Mar 2021 · 20 min read