Deepfakes and the Threat to Privacy and Truth In an age of heated polarization of it will be difficult for politicians to convince their opponents that damaging videos are in fact deepfakes. Ben Sixsmith 23 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
Hate Crime Hoaxes are More Common than You Think Victimhood culture gives rise to hate crime hoaxes, then, because it makes them easier to pull off for the same reasons it makes them more lucrative. Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning 22 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution. C.K. Ryan 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
What’s Happening to Technological Progress? We’re blinded by incremental progress in electronic gadgets of marginal utility—new smartphones, larger monitors, and more powerful computers. Hans Peter Dietz 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
I Know what Intersectionality Is, and I Wish it Were Less Important Half of the twentieth century produced emancipation movements that attained stunning gains for women, racial and ethnic minorities, and gays and lesbians. Nicholas Wolfinger 20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
What Joan Didion Foretold About Campaign Socialism and Popularity This is suspiciously like the argument often used by radical progressives after staking their claims in the moral high ground. Joe Hefferon 20 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Alternative, Scientifically-Literate Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men From genes to hormones to neurotransmitters, plays a role in shaping men’s masculine self-expression is, to say the least, a scientifically untenable position. Gregory Gorelik 19 Feb 2019 · 12 min read
ISIS Bride Should Be Judged for What She Did, Not Who She Is The two processes may begin similarly, but in grooming gangs emotional manipulation very quickly progresses to rape, torture, and threats of murder. Louise Perry 18 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
The Internet Locusts Descend on Ristretto Roasters People on social media hurried to declare that they would never again spend a penny at Ristretto and were rewarded with approval from like-minded peers. Nancy Rommelmann 18 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
The Politically Homeless Life of a Gay Conservative In this media culture is the implicit notion that gay people are monolithic, that they have no individual capacity to reason or hold different values. Brad Polumbo 18 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth. Galen Watts 17 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Polarisation and the Case for Citizens’ Juries A standing citizens’ assembly would reveal the people’s considered opinion as opposed to their unconsidered opinion measured by endless opinion polls. Nicholas Gruen 16 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
High Theory and Low Seriousness A travel folder signifies Death. Coal holes represent the Underworld. Soda crackers are the Host. Three bottles of beer are—it’s obvious. Gustav Jönsson 15 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
Poetic Injustice and Performative Outrage Dehumanization can lead to the worst of human atrocities. It is also precisely the type of complaint Trump’s critics make of the president’s own behavior. Clint Margrave 14 Feb 2019 · 16 min read
Understanding China's Confucian Edge in the Global AI Race China now stands poised to lead the world in the development of artificial-intelligence technologies, which rely, for their machine-learning algorithms. Craig Smith 14 Feb 2019 · 5 min read
