In the Culture Wars, Be a Sancho Panza, Not a Don Quixote
Racists themselves succumb to a version of Don Quitoxe’s delusions when life becomes overwhelming or tumultuous.
Terry Newman
· 10 min read
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What Doesn’t Kill Us Brings Us Together
Because calamities are uniquely egalitarian in their capacity to kill indiscriminately, they dampen the qualities that make us different.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 13 min read
In Defense of Scientism
Once we have identified a desirable end—human flourishing—we can and should use science to discover and promote the policies that encourage it.
Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard
· 14 min read
How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists
It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.
Baz Edmeades
· 9 min read
Prescriptive Racialism and Racial Exclusion
Today, it has become central to the worldview of many on the social justice Left.
Mohamed Ali
· 5 min read
When a Question of Science Brooks No Dissent
Back in December 2012, six days after a mass shooting ended the lives of 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown
Myles Weber
· 14 min read
Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee
How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?
Pamela Paresky
· 7 min read
Milan Kundera Warned Us About Historical Amnesia. Now It's Happening Again
Conflict-induced-apathy can be manipulated for political ends.
Ewan Morrison
· 8 min read
Socialism's Endless Refrain: This Time, Things Will Be Different
This socialist revival is, of course, neither a homogenous movement, nor a fully worked-out policy program.
Kristian Niemietz
· 7 min read
On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate
The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal.
Matthew Blackwell
· 21 min read
Giving the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Its Star Turn on Video
The American intelligentsia seem to have slipped into a state of febrile lunacy in recent years.
Jonathan Kay
· 3 min read
The Globalisation of Ethnonationalism
Art and ideas that had been dreamed up on one side of the world could reach and change people on the other.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?
Larry Cahill
· 11 min read
A Professor Speaks Out: How 'New Left' Orthodoxy Is Failing a New Generation of History Students
The opposing position is that by engaging with other ideas, you make your own ideas stronger.
Kevin Vanzant
· 17 min read
The Right Side of History—A Review
The time may soon come when a more sophisticated neuroscience will render arguments of morality and free will effectively null.
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 11 min read