Time to Stop Using Suicide For Political Point-Scoring
The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
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The Exhaustion of Hedgehog Morality
It is not a resurgence of “authoritarianism” that explains the current backlash against liberalism, as Kagan and others would have us believe.
Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
Albert Camus: Unfashionable Anti-Totalitarian
The Stranger portrays a solitary passionless man wandering through a world without pattern or purpose.
Craig DeLancey
· 10 min read
What Light Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Throw on the Nature/Nurture Debate?
It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways.
Nancy L. Segal
· 10 min read
Banning Evil: In the Shadow of Christchurch, Quasi-Religious Myths Can Lead Us Astray
It is my contention that we must protect speech no matter how hateful it may seem.
Michael Shermer
· 11 min read
What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? That’s the Question We Asked Canadian Academics
The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority
Brayden Whitlock and Kyle Whitlock
· 10 min read
Venezuela and the Half-Truths of Noam Chomsky
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.
Clifton Ross
· 13 min read
Federal Funding, the First Amendment, and Free Speech on Campus
Public colleges and universities function just like every other public institution—as an extension of the government itself.
Lauren Cooley
· 7 min read
The Fall of a Third-Rate Stalin
Dissidents who weren’t assassinated outright might end up in Mile 2 Prison. Only a handful of Mile 2 inmates actually faced lethal injection—the prison’s principal methods of execution were disease and malnutrition.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 14 min read
In Defense of New York City's Elite Public High Schools
Those of us who believe in the merit principle, and who have seen firsthand how these schools can improve the lives of the students
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 7 min read
The Economic Illiteracy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
It is hard to emphasize how chillingly inept this remark is, especially for someone with a degree in economics.
Jonathan Church
· 10 min read
Headline Rhymes
Graham Verdon
· 1 min read
How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor
Addressing Brazil’s legacy of racism is surely one of my country’s most urgent moral priorities.
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
· 7 min read
News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics
For those of us engaged in showing young people how the media are supposed to work, there is no escaping the sturm und drang over fake news.
Steve Salerno
· 11 min read
Why We Should Read Marx
Marx was an acute social analyst whose insights have appeared in novel places. Even conservative and pro-capitalist figures—from Max Weber to Joseph Schumpeter—have at times grudgingly conceded the accuracy of his analysis on many points of importance.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read