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Chile’s Been Falling Apart for Years. Can It Repair Itself and Remain a Democracy?

Chilean middle class has seen its fortunes becomes more precarious, with many families staying afloat only through borrowing.

Manfred Svensson and Pablo Ortúzar

12 Nov 2019 · 6 min read

Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad?

Issues of happiness and conformity notwithstanding, one might still wonder about the affirmative case for elite colleges, especially when considering the effort it takes to gain admittance to one.

Nick Whitaker

12 Nov 2019 · 10 min read

Why Taiping 2.0 Isn't in the Cards: A Reply to 'China’s Looming Class Struggle'

Most Chinese farmers are still quite poor by western standards, or those of their city-mouse kin.

D. Marshall

11 Nov 2019 · 9 min read

Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender

It’s the same for a born female going the other way, to male—which by the way seems on recent evidence to be about as frequently desired as male to female.

Deirdre McCloskey

10 Nov 2019 · 19 min read

Sheep and Mirrors: On Being Social

What is it about other people that bestows such joy, such comfort, such indispensable meaning on our lives?

Emma Wilkins

8 Nov 2019 · 13 min read

The Culture War in Communication Studies

Communication studies is a broad field, encompassing verbal, written and non-verbal sub-categories.

Terry Newman

7 Nov 2019 · 21 min read

Racial Slurs and Deferential Condescension

We are effectively being told that, at this truth-seeking institution, it is inappropriate for us to utter certain indisputably true statements, because the value of truth is trumped by the emotional states of one or another demographic.

Matthew Small

7 Nov 2019 · 5 min read

Climate Change—Assessing the Worst Case Scenario

The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.

Dagfinn Reiersøl

7 Nov 2019 · 11 min read

Elite Colleges Reconsidered

The admissions brochures like to focus on the statistics, from the number of Noble laureates on staff to the faculty-student ratio.

Erich J. Prince

7 Nov 2019 · 14 min read

What Is Autogynephilia? An Interview with Dr Ray Blanchard

Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.

Louise Perry

6 Nov 2019 · 10 min read

Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes

Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.

Helen Joyce

4 Nov 2019 · 9 min read

'For the Love of Men'—A Review

I am sure that men, and the world in general, would be better off if we could foster more intimate male friendships and more honest interaction between men and doctors but some idealised vision of male sensitivity might shatter when confronted with the stresses of the world.

Ben Sixsmith

1 Nov 2019 · 7 min read

Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic

In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.

Jonathan Kay

31 Oct 2019 · 12 min read

Palestine Misunderstood

Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination.

Petra Marquardt-Bigman

31 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

The Danger Is Real: Why We’re All Wired for ‘Constructive Conspiracism’

In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.

Michael Shermer

31 Oct 2019 · 10 min read