Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story? Hossenfelder—who believes women in science are still held back by sexist cultural biases but also opposes preferential treatment as a shortcut to equality—is a welcome exception. Cathy Young 22 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
Why We Should Read Nietzsche My sense is that Nietzsche is best understood as a radical individualist; one who insists passionately that our duty in life is to become what we are. But what kind of person is that? Matt McManus 22 Apr 2019 · 11 min read
The Inevitable Clash of Politicians and Bureaucrats Western States have, over the past 150 years, created bureaucracies without which much of what we all tend to take for granted would not work—or at least during a transitional period of uncertain length, would not work as smoothly and efficiently as we are used to. Jakob Heidbrink 19 Apr 2019 · 8 min read
Keep Calm and Hail Satan A revealing line is delivered about halfway through the film when Mason, a clean-shaven, bow-tied Satanist from Little Rock, Arkansas, explains that he’d been a “zesty little atheist” before becoming involved with the Temple. Blake M. Edwards 18 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
Why Everyone Values Freedom If a pregnant woman has the legal option to abort but is unable to raise a child in her financial circumstances, she has fewer meaningful choices than a woman who lives in a society with legal abortion and generously state-subsidized childcare. Ben Burgis / Matt McManus 17 Apr 2019 · 10 min read
Is the 'Intellectual Dark Web' Politically Diverse? After gathering a lot of data, it’s important to do a “sanity check,” which means taking a step back and making sure that the big picture that emerges from the data makes sense. Uri Harris 17 Apr 2019 · 8 min read
Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics? Proposing that some gender imbalances in fields like physics might not be due to discrimination is like being a social scientist in the Soviet Union and proposing that some class differences aren’t due to discrimination. Alessandro Strumia 16 Apr 2019 · 14 min read
Scientific Progress and the Culture Wars Luckily for sane people everywhere, project insiders have so far refrained from going to the media and dishing on which team members did or didn’t pull their own weight. Sebastian Cesario 15 Apr 2019 · 8 min read
Has the Postmodern Revolution Come Full Circle? This new orthodoxy arrogates to itself divine authority to make truth claims on the basis of consistency with its asserted principles, and these are held to be immune to disproof or falsification by reason or evidence. Colin Turfus 15 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
How I Lost My Partner to a Parasite "This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion. Maryam Henein 15 Apr 2019 · 13 min read
The Circular Firing Squad Is Destroying the Left's Political Brand: A Case Study from Canada Some of the sharpest blows delivered against Canadian progressives over the last month have been the result of poisonous civil wars within the progressive community itself. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2019 · 10 min read
The Problems with America's Best Teacher Training Programme If there is one certainty within educational research, it is that there is no single distinct and best way to teach. Daniel Buck 14 Apr 2019 · 9 min read
Respect, Rights, and Freedoms in an Era of Identity Activism Standard gender pronouns are not an honorific or a mark of respect, they are simply an instrument of categorisation that emerged with the evolution of language. Don Trubshaw 13 Apr 2019 · 6 min read
Politics and the Practice of Warm-Heartedness Brooks blames America’s bitter politics on the “outrage industrial complex”: the media, politicians and commentators who entice voters, attract television viewers, and sell books and event tickets premised on hatred of the other side. Matthew Lesh 12 Apr 2019 · 7 min read