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Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century

Aaron Sarin

3 Jan 2020 · 12 min read

We ‘Gender-Critical’ Feminists Pay a Price for Speaking Out. But the Price of Silence is Higher

Many women are starting to realize that silence is no longer an option, because this trend is not going away.

Libby Emmons

29 Dec 2019 · 9 min read

Derailing Australia’s Campus Rape Panic

Universities Australia has just commissioned a new survey on sexual assault intended to cook up more impressive rape statistics after the failure of the AHRC to produce the desired results.

Bettina Arndt

21 Dec 2019 · 6 min read

How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age

If we want to live in a world where we can buy things and subscribe to media and earn money and publish our thoughts without the fear of being spied on, then we are going to need a digital form of cash. Bitcoin is the foundation for that system.

Alex Gladstein

17 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis

The poor and worsening position of research is not self-correcting, and the sector needs to be redirected towards the solution of real world problems and developing an effective predictive capability.

Les Coleman

14 Dec 2019 · 8 min read

Create Dangerously: Albert Camus and the Power and Responsibility of the Artist

For Camus, great art develops between the two chasms of frivolity and propaganda, where every step forward is a dangerous one.

Clint Margrave

12 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

Are We in the Midst of a Transgender Murder Epidemic?

The truth is there is no epidemic of transgender murders. The recorded transgender murder rate is 1/3 or less of the overall murder rate for all American citizens and legal residents.

Wilfred Reilly

7 Dec 2019 · 7 min read

On the Passing of Oberlin Plaintiff David Gibson

David Gibson has not lived to see the end of this distressing saga. In late 2018, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and, on November 16 of this year, he passed away aged 65.

Daniel McGraw

2 Dec 2019 · 11 min read

GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children

The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.

Matt Ridley

1 Dec 2019 · 11 min read

Ivory-Tower Sex-Work Activists Have Lost Touch with the Needs of Actual Sex Workers

It’s all rather ironic, since sex workers, of all people, should understand the need to protect contentious opinions. From time immemorial, we are the ones who often bore the brunt of attempts to censor sexual expression.

Nadia Guo

1 Dec 2019 · 24 min read

Villanova and the Compulsory Pieties of Higher Education

Once the institutions become ideologically homogenous within, the only credible threats are the ones from without: hence the importance of deplatforming outside speakers.

Lyell Asher

25 Nov 2019 · 15 min read

Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update

The chief purpose of luxury beliefs is to indicate evidence of the believer’s social class and education.

Rob Henderson

16 Nov 2019 · 12 min read

Gates Derangement Syndrome

Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational plute drive”?