The Racism Treadmill If racism still looms large in our social and political lives, then, as one left-wing commentator put it, “progress is debatable.” Coleman Hughes 14 May 2018 · 15 min read
The Political Chimp Chimp warfare had been studied for decades. A 2010 study of Ngogo chimps best summarizes the controversies in the field. Elio Martino 19 Feb 2018 · 7 min read
The Case for Diversity What are the arguments for and against diversity? It’s often claimed with certainty that a diverse workforce is good for a business’s bottom line. James Damore 12 Feb 2018 · 7 min read
"Equalitarianism" and Progressive Bias Other researchers have expressed concern that this unflattering image of conservatives might be an unfortunate manifestation of bias from within the academy. Bo Winegard 7 Feb 2018 · 16 min read
A Deep Dive into Jordan Peterson’s Channel 4 Interview So what are Peterson’s views, and why did Newman consider them so controversial? Uri Harris 2 Feb 2018 · 9 min read
Where Did We Come From? An Astonishing Hypothesis The possibility that non-life became life over a million or so years, rather than hundreds of millions of years, is astonishing. Geoffrey Lehmann 3 Jan 2018 · 18 min read
The Poverty of Cosmopolitan Historicism Instead of emulating the Western experience, are increasingly pursuing indigenous paths to modernity. Carl Ritter 17 Nov 2017 · 8 min read
Against the Demonization of Drugs Drugs are able to save lives and ruin them; enhance your mind and numb it; heal your body and destroy it. Sana Al-Badri and Marco Vega 7 Nov 2017 · 12 min read
What is Mindfulness? Nobody Really Knows, and That's a Problem Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments. Nicholas T Van Dam and Nick Haslam 24 Oct 2017 · 4 min read
Is There a Biological Case for Criminal Justice Reform? “We’ve successfully banished the notion of punishment in that realm,” Sapolsky writes. “It may take centuries, but we can do the same in all our current arenas of punishment.” Hal Conick 20 Oct 2017 · 6 min read
What Sadomasochism Can Teach Us About Human Sexuality Notwithstanding the ever-expanding reach of Darwinism away from sexuality, the exploration of the evolutionary roots of human sexual behavior is not yet complete. Gregory Gorelik 4 Apr 2017 · 17 min read
Using Social Media Scientifically Seeking viewpoint diversity brings us to the final way to use social media scientifically: keeping our information channels open as best we can. Andrew Glover 20 Mar 2017 · 5 min read
Why Powerful People Fail to Stop Bad Behavior by Their Underlings Although the failure to stop an unethical practice is often attributed to character problems such as greed, sexism or the relentless pursuit of self-interest, our explanation is subtler. Jessica A Kennedy and Cameron Anderson 16 Mar 2017 · 6 min read
Why Growth Most Often Occurs When We Fall Apart I find this theory to be a very elegant explanation of human potential and the process of growth and change. Michael Aaron 12 Feb 2017 · 5 min read
How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Created Political Gridlock in the U.S. From an evolutionary perspective the current domestic political crisis can thus be understood as an aftershock of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bill von Hippel 10 Feb 2017 · 4 min read
