Right of Reply: Our Response to Jerry Coyne Careless in his facts, Coyne is also careless in his references. Günter Bechly, Brian Miller and David Berlinski 29 Sep 2019 · 14 min read
Hong Kong: First Line of Defence against a Rising Fascist Power The total authoritarian control that Xi craves has been denied to him for the first time since he took office. Aaron Sarin 28 Sep 2019 · 7 min read
The Case for Black Optimism The narrative of doom and gloom is misleading. Coleman Hughes 28 Sep 2019 · 11 min read
How to Be a Dictator—A Review Dictators were portrayed as omnipotent and omnibenevolent, as such they stood above criticism. Gustav Jönsson 27 Sep 2019 · 7 min read
'Cancel Culture,' Roaring Twenties-Style The term “cancel culture” has become hotly contested of late. Critics say it is indiscriminately used to describe different degrees of mass opprobrium produced by transgressions that range from the trivial to the criminal. Now, while mob justice is never a particularly good idea, it is certainly true that some Kevin Mims 27 Sep 2019 · 12 min read
The Human Skills AI Can't Replace Today’s inductive AI can only solve problems in the narrow problem space we predefine. William J. Littlefield II 25 Sep 2019 · 10 min read
The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does. Jamie Kilstein 24 Sep 2019 · 7 min read
No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’ The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body. William J. Malone, Colin M. Wright, and Julia D. Robertson 24 Sep 2019 · 6 min read
Postmodernism's Dead End Equally important is that this new definition of usefulness extends to nonhuman nature as well. Maximilian Werner 23 Sep 2019 · 10 min read
Why Has Kamala Harris's Campaign Fizzled? The logic of a Harris candidacy rests on her coalition-building skills. Josh Adams 21 Sep 2019 · 5 min read
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions? Holly Lawford-Smith 20 Sep 2019 · 17 min read
Michel Houellebecq: Populism's Prophet Populism has been unpacked, dissected, defined, and analysed, and the results have all been discouraging. G. Gavin Collins 19 Sep 2019 · 16 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars. Andy Lamey 18 Sep 2019 · 19 min read
Diet Reporting—the Real Fake News Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens. John Staddon 18 Sep 2019 · 7 min read
Confessions of a Social Constructionist If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic Christopher Dummitt 17 Sep 2019 · 15 min read