Human Rights
A collection of 96 posts
China’s Stateless Nations
How We Lost Our Way on Human Rights
Surely we should seek to build on the past where possible, improve upon it, and learn from its successes as much as its failures—to create a healthy and honest partnership between past and present as a foundation for our future.
At Dalhousie University, Ideology Comes First, Science Comes Second
We are entering a strange and unsettling period in the life of universities, and in the sciences, in particular.
The Crimes of the Red Emperor
Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century
The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part Two: The Trial
The more someone invests in a lie, the more painful it becomes to renounce.
Denial and Defamation—The ITN-LM Libel Trial Revisited, Part One: The Camps
The story of the ITN trip to Bosnia—and the bitter quarrel about its reporting that followed—is a cautionary tale about the destructive and deranging effects of ideological hubris.
Frederick Douglass, The Columbian Orator, and the 1619 Project
This vision of universal human rights based on our common humanity was the common ground shared by these two antislavery giants in American history, and it is the common ground now renounced by the 1619 Project.
Polyamory Is Growing—And We Need To Get Serious About It
More people than ever are pursuing polyamorous, open, or swinging relationships.
The New York Post Whitewashes the Plight of Egypt's Copts
The least we should expect from Western Christians is that they refuse to become accomplices in our persecution.
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
Yaniv’s Other Racket: How a Single Gender Troll Managed to Get 'Hundreds' of Women Thrown Off Twitter
The larger discussion of how trans rights and women’s rights will be reconciled in coming years lies beyond the scope of this article.