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Conceit and Contagion: How the Virus Shocked Europe

The World Health Organization announced last week that Europe is now the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. As the announcement was made, many countries in Africa and Asia were imposing strict restrictions on the arrival of flights and visitors from Europe. It felt like a great historical reversal, one

Bruno Maçães

14 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

Photo montage of Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering as young people.

Fabricated Innocence

The self-exoneration and re-incrimination of Jens Soering.

Andrew Hammel

8 Mar 2020 · 42 min read

I've Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You

I did not enjoy the protection of tenure (I was, however, tenure-track), but we should not rely upon tenure to uphold free inquiry.

Bo Winegard

6 Mar 2020 · 7 min read

Sorry, New York Times, But America Began in 1776

There is no reason—no reason at all—that middle-class American Blacks or Appalachian whites cannot be expected to perform at the same level as recent immigrants from the Philippines.

Wilfred Reilly

17 Feb 2020 · 10 min read

Confessions of an Equity-Industry Propagandist

It was my job to turn a regressive sow’s ear into a progressive silk purse.

Janet Mackay

5 Feb 2020 · 8 min read

I May Have Gender Dysphoria. But I Still Prefer to Base My Life on Biology, Not Fantasy

For the rest of society to acquiesce to this lie is not only a betrayal of science, but of democracy.

Debbie Hayton

2 Feb 2020 · 9 min read

An Orwelexicon for Bias and Dysfunction in Psychology and Academia

They argued that “mansplaining” was just the “tip of the iceberg” and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”

Lee Jussim

29 Jan 2020 · 5 min read

The Public School Teacher Attrition Crisis

The solution doesn’t have to be so complicated.

Elizabeth Emery

24 Jan 2020 · 11 min read

All the Single Ladies

Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.

Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson

16 Jan 2020 · 13 min read

Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals

Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.

Barbara Kay

14 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

Reflections on Intersectionality

Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.

Coleman Hughes

14 Jan 2020 · 7 min read

Demoted and Placed on Probation

One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”

Stuart Reges

11 Jan 2020 · 14 min read

Lessons from Australia’s Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric

Confronting the problem of climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time—a global Apollo Mission for the 21st Century.

Claire Lehmann

8 Jan 2020 · 8 min read

The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down

Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled “Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?” Fallon celebrated the notion that white men are losing their prominence in contemporary American literature and that the best books being published in America

Kevin Mims

7 Jan 2020 · 11 min read