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Why Is the Society for American Archaeology Promoting Indigenous Creationism?

The most expansive interpretations of NAGPRA’s provisions now serve to place Indigenous oral traditions, which typically include religious stories, on equal footing with traditional forms of scientific evidence such as DNA analysis.

Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer

13 Jun 2021 · 15 min read

How the (Much Maligned) Mongol Horde Helped Create Russian Civilization

The Jochid khans considered the Russian principalities part of their dominion.

Marie Favereau

11 Jun 2021 · 8 min read

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

15 May 2021 · 6 min read

The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples

In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.

Bruce Bourque

29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read

Do Lockdowns Work? Only If You Lock the Borders Down, Too

The public debate around COVID-19 has too often centred on the question of whether a certain set of measures, usually classified as lockdowns, are or are not effective.

Noah Carl

15 Feb 2021 · 8 min read

Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School

The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism.

Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller

23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read

Don’t Listen to the Outrage. ‘Cuties’ Is a Great Film

Allan Stratton

17 Sep 2020 · 12 min read

The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism

By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970.

Baz Edmeades

6 Sep 2020 · 9 min read

Why I Believe Climate Change Is Not the End of the World

A NASA scientist predicted simultaneous collapses of food systems on multiple continents at once.

Michael Shellenberger

8 Jul 2020 · 36 min read

Immigration and Inequality

For people without a foothold in the new service and financial businesses, it was harder to make ends meet.

Christopher Caldwell

6 Apr 2020 · 8 min read

Greece: Tensions Rise Again As Migrant Crisis Escalates

Migration in the Mediterranean has increased in recent weeks to the highest level since the EU-Turkey deal in March, 2016, and Greece is back to being the main entry point for hopeful migrants.

Nektaria Stamouli

13 Sep 2019 · 5 min read

An Argument Against Open Borders and Liberal Hubris

Progressives should remember that civilisation is not a science laboratory.

Ben Sixsmith

27 Aug 2017 · 7 min read