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Against Research Ethics Committees

The guidelines ethics committees follow present themselves as universal rules derived from reason.

Paul Oslington

17 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular

The U.S. abortion debate has raged for generations, and remains divisive to this day.

Steve Jacobs

16 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Corporate Subservience to China Exposes the Hypocrisy of Woke Capitalism

China’s ability to make America’s biggest companies dance to its tune exposes woke capitalism as the sanctimonious scam that it is.

Zaid Jilani

15 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

Good Men Aren't Getting Harder to Find

Every year in the US, nearly 2 million students enroll in one of the nearly 4,300 degree-granting colleges and universities.

Daniel Friedman

14 Oct 2019 · 6 min read

The Dangerous Dream of Dismantling Human Hierarchies

Most setups that might appear to be non-hierarchical are actually deeply hierarchical.

Christoph Kletzer

13 Oct 2019 · 19 min read

Olga Tokarczuk: Poland's "Patriots" Struggle To Accept The Nobel Prize

Tokarczuk is a passionate proponent of tolerance, feminism and European unity.

Bartosz Wieliński

11 Oct 2019 · 5 min read

Science and Data: Notes on a Misconception

The theory that science is based on evidence derives from a philosophy known as empiricism.

Lucas Smalldon

10 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

The Meritocracy Trap—A Review

Workers are instead selected by their educational credentials, even when a degree is unnecessary

John Staddon

9 Oct 2019 · 13 min read

Trudeau’s Government Tried to Block My Election Reporting. (Thankfully, It Failed)

In recent days, the Liberals escalated their campaign against Lawton, by seeking not only to block him from covering the Liberal campaign, but also seeking to deny him accreditation to cover the National Leader’s Debates.

Candice Malcolm

8 Oct 2019 · 8 min read

How Feminism Has Constrained Our Understanding of Gender

Feminist research into sex differences has typically concluded that the number of sex differences is small, and therefore unimportant, thus making the logical error that a small number of differences means those differences are inconsequential.

John Barry

8 Oct 2019 · 7 min read

University Harassment Policy and Its Problems

In its effort to protect its students from potentially awkward social interactions, the university is arrogating adult decision-making to the institution.

Marilyn Simon

2 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against So-called ‘TERFs’

It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.

Helen Joyce

2 Oct 2019 · 9 min read

The Problem with Sensitivity Readers

Sensitivity readers are typically sought by authors writing about some marginalized group—a culture to which they don’t personally belong, or a community about which they don’t feel they have complete expertise, and about which they want to be warned of any overlooked biases or stereotypes.

Ryan Holiday

1 Oct 2019 · 10 min read

The Man at the Arcade

Sometimes, it seemed like the world was against me. But when I did finally get the chance to read all those carefully kept files, my overwhelming impression was that they—the social workers, guardian ad litems, judges, teachers and volunteers—were trying their best.

Stephen Elliott

29 Sep 2019 · 7 min read