Masochistic Nationalism—A Review
Post-colonial guilt in Britain and other formerly imperial Western powers can produce similar displays of self-flagellation and denial.
Rumy Hasan
· 7 min read
Identity
A collection of 161 posts
When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime
Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.
Angus Fox
· 17 min read
Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office
One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed
Sally Satel
· 11 min read
Identity and the Self in 'Hamlet'
Explore identity and the self in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, showing how the prince’s inner conflict mirrors modern questions of authenticity and role.
Marilyn Simon
· 13 min read
Gaslighting the Concerned Parents of Trans Children—A Psychotherapist’s View
I first met Jo and Carol in Manchester two years ago, when I spoke as a clinician on a panel at what is believed to be the first conference dedicated to the issue of detransitioners (people who once presented themselves as transgender, but then decided to live in accordance with
Stella O’Malley
· 15 min read
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
“The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn and anybody is
Samuel Kronen
· 24 min read
The White of the AI
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
Sean Welsh
· 9 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
· 17 min read
Australian Indigenous Activists Call Out White Feminism's Deadly Blind Spot
The very language we now use to discuss social justice and feminism is being subjected to American critical-race ideology and intersectional feminism.
Edie Wyatt
· 8 min read
The Permanence of Segregation
Indeed, given existing levels of residential segregation on all continents—urban, suburban, and rural—it is also not practically possible (and almost always politically impossible) to redraw the lines that determine attendance in ways that would produce more integration.
Michael S. Merry
· 16 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
· 9 min read
Can You Teach Children to be Anti-Racist?
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Greg Ashman
· 6 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part III: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
Gay men and women fought long and hard to be accepted for who they are, often battling reactionary bigotry in the process.
Angus Fox
· 18 min read
When Sons Become Daughters, Part II: Parents of Transitioning Boys Speak Out on Their Own Suffering
This isn’t to say that all causes of transgenderism are exogenous: the presence of neuro-atypical cognition comes up over and over, as does the sons’ process of discovering (or rejecting) their sexuality.
Angus Fox
· 32 min read
Facts Don’t Care About Your Diversity Training Certificate—A Critique of Credentialism
The basic fact that famous experts are often wrong is not itself in dispute—but is worth reviewing.
Wilfred Reilly
· 10 min read