Welcome to the West — Please Don't Integrate
The West’s own ideological wars had thus moved geographically and were now surfacing in the rest of the world.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 7 min read
Identity Politics
A collection of 52 posts
Making a Stand for Cultural Universalism
Quebec is very much part of that great cultural mash-up we call Western culture.
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
Racism Disguised as Anti-Racism
The lack of any ideological counterpoise has created a vacuum where ideas have no mechanism or incentive for moderation.
Andy Ngo
· 4 min read
Are Women Victims? — Four Women Respond
Women can be victims. In this world, there are violent, exploitative people willing to use and abuse their fellow human beings.
Quillette
· 9 min read
I'm Uneasy About the #MeToo Movement
An assumption of personal responsibility is the sine qua non of independence and autonomy in a free society.
Lexa Frankl
· 13 min read
The Implosion of Western Liberalism
By the end of the twentieth century, liberal democracy seemed not only triumphant but, to some, inevitable.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 22 min read
Education NGO Faces Backlash After Academics Retract Essay Citing Intelligence Research
The essay’s author and summit panelist, Toby Young, says he was blindsided at the sudden retraction two days after its publication.
Andy Ngo
· 5 min read
Mindfulness — Nobody Really Knows, and That's the Problem
Researchers should systematically assess potential side effects when studying mindfulness treatments.
Nicholas T Van Dam and Nick Haslam
· 5 min read
Terrorism and White Privilege
This discrepancy, it is alleged, is evidence of ‘white privilege.’
Dale Claridge
· 8 min read
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
Lisa Marchiano
· 11 min read
The Germaine Greer-Emma Dilemma
Greer herself emphasized this point in drawing a distinction between “reform” feminism and “revolutionary” feminism.
Steven C Munson
· 10 min read
The Noble Savage Speaks
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 5 min read
Rage, Selective Outrage
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.
Spencer Case
· 7 min read
The Brain's Trust — Intersectionality, Nadia Chan, and Munroe Bergdorf
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
Sumantra Maitra
· 5 min read
Traditionalists and Activists Are Both Wrong About Sex and Gender
The clearest evidence for this lack of a distinction is the fact that most individuals are cisgender (individuals whose gender identity aligns with their biological sex).
Gregory Gorelik
· 8 min read