Privilege-Checking in a World on Fire Privilege is a sham mark of opprobrium—those who decry the privilege of others tend to want more of it for themselves. The dissemblance is all the more distasteful given that the detractors of privilege typically possess, comparatively speaking, an abundance of it. One need not be conversant in history David A. Eisenberg 15 Mar 2022 · 5 min read
The Vox Formula: Telling Privileged People What They Already Believe The confusion of having an elite, educated status with having information, facts, and knowledge should by now be familiar—it is a move that journalists have made repeatedly to capture a high-end market and then clothe that market-driven decision as a journalistic value. Batya Ungar-Sargon 28 Oct 2021 · 8 min read
How Liberal Elites Use Race to Keep Workers Divided—And Justify Class-Based Inequities Liberals have abandoned history, because they have to believe they are superior to both elites of the past and the contemporary working class, at the same time. Catherine Liu 20 May 2021 · 6 min read
Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not. Karin Litzcke 19 May 2021 · 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 15 Apr 2021 · 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 13 Apr 2021 · 6 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying. Minnie Doe 27 Dec 2020 · 10 min read
A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts. Rav Arora 22 Dec 2020 · 16 min read
‘Nobody Likes the Other Guy’: On the Road With Donald Trump’s Diehards There were a lot of Hispanic people there, which seems an underreported story. Stephen Elliott 2 Nov 2020 · 20 min read
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity. Jeff Rubin 24 Oct 2020 · 10 min read
The Myth of Pervasive Misogyny Contrary to expectations from the pervasive misogyny theory, across a variety of topics, samples, and research teams, recent findings in psychology suggest that such biases often favor women. Cory Clark / Bo Winegard 27 Jul 2020 · 11 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared. Coleman Hughes 14 Jan 2020 · 7 min read
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity—A Review The chapter on Trans issues is particularly revealing in regard to the way the different “building blocks” of intersectional theory come into conflict with one another. Johan Wennström 7 Oct 2019 · 8 min read
For Students Who Grew Up Poor, An Elite Campus Can Seem Like a Sea of Wealth and Snobbery The rich kids at Gulliver, those who drove Range Rovers and boasted of extravagant vacations, were not black. But at Amherst, many of my new wealthy classmates were. Anthony Abraham Jack 24 Aug 2019 · 12 min read
Watching My Own Excommunication—on a Facebook Video The behavior on display in that video didn’t originate in a place of reason, but rather the realm of spiritual passions. Sky Gilbert 1 Jun 2019 · 11 min read
