The Virtue Economy
These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic.
Suzie Mulesky
· 16 min read
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How Should We Read the Totalitarian Philosophers?
This is particularly true of Marx and (especially) Heidegger, who gave concrete support to parties and proposals that resulted in the deaths of millions of people.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
Attention, Star Trek Culture Warriors: Stand Down from Battle Stations
It’s a shame so many viewers apparently were too busy fighting the culture war on planet Earth to watch the much cooler war being fought against Klingon forces in the inky vastness of space.
Matt Gurney
· 7 min read
Adventures in Adjunctopia
Among academics, it is considered a badge of honor to be paid in copies, or not at all. After all, you can’t put a price tag on genius!
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
Are the Classics Complicit in White Supremacy?
No reason to believe that classics as a field has had any particular tendency towards white supremacism either in the present or in the past.
James Kierstead
· 9 min read
Taking on the Offendotrons: a review of Russell Blackford's 'The Tyranny of Opinion'
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
Helen Dale
· 15 min read
How Ideologues Captured the Canadian Publishing Industry
Publishing is not a career one chooses for the money.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 12 min read
The Unconstrained Vision of David Deutsch
Sowell distinguishes between the unconstrained vision and the constrained vision.
Clovis Roussy
· 10 min read
The Right Needs To Grow Up On Environmentalism
All of us hope to enjoy our lives, of course, but much of what we do to help our fellow men, our children, and our children’s children involves sacrificing our immediate enjoyment for the sake of their interests.
Ben Sixsmith
· 10 min read
How Real Is Systemic Racism Today?
The beauty of “systemic racism” is its air of permanence.
John Staddon
· 17 min read
The White Privilege of Being Black
The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.
Ilana Redstone
· 7 min read
Thank You, APA
Turns out, the traditional masculinity that drives many of us men to be confident, assertive, adventurous, stoic, and willing to take risks for our goals, the people we love, and sometimes even complete strangers are bad for us and society.
Clay Routledge
· 7 min read
How to Build a Bed
According to a local historian the house was probably occupied by freed slaves, possibly even an interracial couple. By 1840 standards New Orleans was a progressive place.
Stephen Elliott
· 10 min read
Truth and Disfavored Identities
Activists and Twitter blowhards, some of them with thousands of followers, have run roughshod over the facts with a false narrative of grotesque privilege colliding with noble oppression that confirmed their ideological preferences.
Joshua Hunter
· 6 min read