As a Gay Child in a Christian Cult, I Was Taught to Hate Myself. Then I Joined the Church of Social Justice—and Nothing Changed I grew up in the suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland, in a fundamentalist Christian community called The Lamb of God. What began in the mid-1970s as a small group of born-again hippies who played music, prayed together, and proselytized to whoever would listen about Jesus’s unconditional love and mercy, descended Ben Appel 8 Jul 2021 · 42 min read
Mate Selection for Modernity Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security. It is the act of marrying up. Vincent Harinam 28 Jun 2021 · 17 min read
Leaving Portland Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland. Michael J. Totten 14 Mar 2021 · 22 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible. Pedro Domingos 27 Jan 2021 · 12 min read
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday. Quillette 11 Jan 2021 · 11 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying. Minnie Doe 27 Dec 2020 · 10 min read
A Peculiar Kind of Racist Patriarchy The income gap between white and black women, meanwhile, is much narrower than the gap between their male counterparts. Rav Arora 22 Dec 2020 · 16 min read
I Signed Up to Study Sexual Health. What I Got Was Gender Ideology, Fetishism, and Porn The Sexual Health Certificate Program is a prestigious University of Michigan program conducted in affiliation with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT). Tim Courtois 31 Oct 2020 · 17 min read
Rallying to Protect Admissions Standards at America’s Best Public High School The activists seeking to eliminate TJ’s meritocratic admissions systems attribute this latter result to systemic racism. Asra Q. Nomani and Glenn Miller 23 Sep 2020 · 10 min read
Then They Came for Beethoven Beethoven is a truly odd target for progressive critics, because his views on geopolitics are known to have been, by the highly regressive standards of his time, quite progressive. Daniel Lelchuk 19 Sep 2020 · 7 min read
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress. Rav Arora 8 Sep 2020 · 14 min read
The Myth of Harmonious Indigenous Conservationism By 2014, Homo sapiens had, by the reckoning of the World Wildlife Fund, destroyed an incredible 60 percent of the wild mammal, bird, reptile, and fish populations that were in existence as recently as 1970. Baz Edmeades 6 Sep 2020 · 10 min read
Bad Vibrations: The Lies Universities Tell Their Students about Sex Universities are free to promote sexual experimentation. But they should be honest that pushing norms and boundaries involves making mistakes. Samantha Harris and Michael Thad Allen 17 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
Woody Allen's 'Apropos of Nothing'—A Review He cannot help being true to himself. In this calm, blithe, and objective memoir, Allen emerges, at wild odds with his comedic persona, as a very tough, independent artist, a passionate lover of women, avowing his innocence of the one and only charge ever leveled against him in 84 years. David Evanier 21 Apr 2020 · 12 min read
The Coming Age of Dispersion New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen. Joel Kotkin 25 Mar 2020 · 11 min read