'The Great Scattering': How Identity Panic Took Root in the Void Once Occupied by Family Life The panic over identity, in short, is being driven by the fact that the human animal has been selected for familial forms of socialization that for many people no longer exist. Mary Eberstadt 27 Aug 2019 · 10 min read
Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned. Alex Mackiel 26 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
Why White Privilege Is Wrong—Part 1 In fact, white privilege condenses the complexities of group outcomes into a simple narrative that does not help anyone. Vincent Harinam / Rob Henderson 22 Aug 2019 · 14 min read
Are Political Disagreements Real Disagreements? If partisanship is shaping our perceptions of reality, then democratic decision-making becomes incredibly difficult. Michael Hannon 20 Aug 2019 · 9 min read
Gamers are the Easy—But Wrong—Target After Mass Violence When members of other communities are involved in mass violence, we rightfully are cautioned not to reflexively blame the community as a whole, and gaming should get the same treatment. Christopher J. Ferguson 20 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
Free Speech Matters, Even When it’s Not Protected by the First Amendment As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.” Jason Richwine 18 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
Once Upon a Time...Film Critics Became Joyless—A Review Tarantino is quintessentially American. He lets us linger and watch Tate in all her Technicolor radiance. He lets us love her. What’s more, he lets her watch and love herself. Steven Volynets 17 Aug 2019 · 9 min read
The Campaign to Destroy Equal Voice The conflict between management and the young staffers at Equal Voice is not only an ideological divide, but a generational one, and the younger cohort employs a particularly dramatic lexicon. Lona Manning 16 Aug 2019 · 14 min read
The Bigotry of Environmental Pessimism The “Lorax” view of environmental problems as a consequence of greed has always been wrong and depressing. Michael Shellenberger 15 Aug 2019 · 8 min read
The Argument for Equality and Fairness Some progressives may indeed be primarily motivated by resentment, but that does not in itself invalidate the argument to pursue greater equality. Matt McManus 14 Aug 2019 · 11 min read
Theoterrorism versus Freedom of Speech—A Review Not only had Carrell hurt the feelings of the Iranian people, but he had hurt the feelings of Muslims all over the world. There would be consequences. Rumy Hasan 14 Aug 2019 · 8 min read
Trudeau’s Shameful Gambit: Smearing Conservative Opponents as Neo-Nazis He is hyping the problem for political gain, rather than contextualizing it as a challenge to democratic liberalism that should be managed within our existing political framework. David Jacobs 13 Aug 2019 · 11 min read
The Rise of ‘Drag Kids’—and the Death of Gay Culture There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human. Sky Gilbert 10 Aug 2019 · 13 min read
Against Literalism—'The Satanic Verses' Fatwa at 30 The intermingling of elements—culture, language, religion—is celebrated, while the concept of purity in identity and culture is repudiated as too constricting. Daniel James Sharp 9 Aug 2019 · 9 min read
In Defense of Political Hypocrisy Everyone with political beliefs benefits from systems that they oppose in some way. Christian Barnard 9 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
