Reassessing Cultural Divisions in the United States
There can be no doubt that the current American political landscape is characterized by polarization and extremism in many forms.
Preston Stovall
· 9 min read
Identity Politics
A collection of 52 posts
Rehabilitating Feminism
We must use these distinctions with care. Labels are most effective when used as a scalpel, not a hammer. Feminologists should not be ridiculed or insulted, but convinced.
Jacob Little
· 14 min read
Are the Gender Wars Just Getting Started?
To get an idea of what’s in store for us next, Australians would do well to look at the debate over gender identity in Canada, where things have gotten, shall we say, mind-bogglingly odd.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Not My Rights Movement
If this rate of letter propagation continues, we’ll soon have an acronym that spans several lines and will be worth well over two thousand points in Scrabble.
Fred Litwin
· 15 min read
You Can't Build Walls Around a Culture
It’s progress. It’s the constantly expanding intellectual and social capacity that has led human civilization to every single one of its most mind-blowing achievements.
Sam White
· 4 min read
A Defence of Lionel Shriver: Identity Politicians Would Kill Literature If They Could
Shriver took aim at the devotees of identity politics, who occupy and conquer today’s university campuses.
Timothy Cootes
· 5 min read
Daily Life's Boy-Bashing Clickbait Reaches New Low
It might just be that casual prejudice has become so commonplace that many of us don’t even notice it anymore.
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Confessions of a Recovering Tumblr Feminist
My blissful union with feminism ended in the same way that any long-term relationship does: with hurt feelings, a little embarrassment, and a pang of remorse over what could have been.
Mazelit Airaksinen
· 4 min read
Authenticity and Experience: The Problem of Identity Politics in Literature
Our culture, dominated by the 140 character limit, is particularly apt at creating tempests in teacups, each evoking an explosion of drama that exhausts itself in a mere matter of days (or in some cases a matter of hours).
James Walker
· 10 min read
The Bermuda Triangle Part II: Dangerous Research & the Risks Worth Taking
The strategies of mob science are uncomplicated and as both Rushton and Gottfredson would learn first hand, they are terrifyingly effective.
Brian Boutwell
· 7 min read
Confusion About -Isms Is Compounding Schisms
As many of these confusions pertain to some variety of liberalism — classical, neo, libertarian — let’s start clarifying things there.
Mark Fabian
· 10 min read
Study Suggests Society's View of Males Has Soured
“Gender Stereotypes Just As Prevalent in 2016 As In The 1980s, New Study Finds, So Maybe Things Aren’t As Great As We’d Like To Believe.”
Cathy Young
· 6 min read
The Great Diversity Scam
If the Diversity whingers were interested in solving problems, they’d have focused on these issues long ago.
Stephen Beard
· 3 min read
Music and Language, Cultural Identity and Fame
Tracking the evolution of music over recent centuries.
Geoffrey Lehmann
· 20 min read
Traitors to the Human Mind
As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane.
Jamie Palmer
· 10 min read