Something for Nothing—The Importance of Mindful Volunteering If we are going to contribute our talent and effort to causes as volunteers, we should do so mindfully, as we should with the rest of the choices in our lives, such as whom we choose as lovers or friends. Chuck Lanigan 4 Dec 2019 · 7 min read
Dual-Enrollment—Effective Strategies or Seductive Stratagems? Lawmakers who examined various incarnations of dual-enrollment programs were stunned to find students earning college credits for taking gym. Steve Salerno 4 Dec 2019 · 8 min read
Is Gender a Social Construct? It appears that biology plays a powerful role in our internalized sense of gender as well as our preference for gendered behaviors (allowing for non-trivial social influences, particular for the latter). Christopher J. Ferguson 30 Nov 2019 · 9 min read
The Case for Compulsory Voting A compulsory voting law—practiced in a number of democracies around the world, including Australia and Belgium—makes voting a civic requirement for all citizens. Chang Che 29 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
Iran Protests: It's not about Gas Prices The protests went on for a few weeks, until the regime successfully repressed them with a violent crackdown, but economic conditions only worsened. Shay Khatiri 28 Nov 2019 · 8 min read
Mayors Won't Rule the World The emerging configuration of the new urban politics threatens many of the gains made over the past two decades. Joel Kotkin 27 Nov 2019 · 11 min read
Thanksgiving—A Uniquely American Tradition Finding ways to coexist is challenging, in part because the better we are at coexisting, the more diversity we attract, and the more diversity we attract, the more difficult it becomes to persuasively accommodate all competing values. Kenneth R. Pike 27 Nov 2019 · 14 min read
Inside the Woke Actors Studio: How I Trained Future Doctors to Police Their Pronouns But pulling off the kind of manipulative narcissism that privileges ideological dogma over real community health needs—that’s the mark of a true pro. Anna Slatz 26 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification? One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods. Coleman Hughes 25 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
Why UBI Ought to Appeal to Conservatives Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t. Cody Kommers 20 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
Religious Progressivism It is not only religious “zealots” who get obsessed about good and evil. All human beings do. Colin Turfus 20 Nov 2019 · 7 min read
Please Stop Calling Yourself a 'Feminist Badass' Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass. Meghan Daum 19 Nov 2019 · 9 min read
Abandoning Malmö to Its Criminals The explosion happened three blocks away, but the sound had become so familiar that I went back to sleep without even getting out of bed to check on my twins. Henrik Jönsson 15 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
The Price of Sex The total value of the sex trade could be said to be the value of the net transfer of wealth from men to women. Jerry Barnett 14 Nov 2019 · 11 min read