How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction. Mary Frances Williams 26 Feb 2019 · 20 min read
What My Days as a Marxist Taught Me About Modern Political Cults Parsing these texts becomes an obsession for generations of true believers. The rapture, that bloody apocalyptic end of days, is replaced with revolution. C.K. Ryan 21 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
A Witch-Hunt on Instagram Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years. Kathrine Jebsen Moore 17 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
Public Education’s Dirty Secret My small classes faced a large photograph of Barack Obama displayed proudly in front of the classroom over the title “Notre Président.” Mary Hudson 10 Feb 2019 · 20 min read
Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys Introduction — John P. Wright, Ph.D. John Paul Wright is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati. He has published widely on the causes and correlates of human violence. His current work examines how ideology affects scholarship. Follow him on Twitter @cjprofman. Thirteen years in the making, Quillette 4 Feb 2019 · 19 min read
Liberal Orthodoxy and the New Heresy Complaint sometimes reflects an honest desire to be able to ask the unaskable, speak the unspeakable, and ponder the imponderable. Erik Gilbert 4 Feb 2019 · 9 min read
The Bolivarian God That Failed The available scientific and statistical evidence (not to mention common sense) weighs strongly against belief in bodily resurrection from the dead. Clifton Ross 1 Feb 2019 · 21 min read
Why Do People Tell Me I’m Not Allowed to Write? The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast. Libby Emmons 1 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
Tiers of Pride and Shame Pride and shame are two sides of the same coin; so if collective pride makes sense, then collective shame makes sense too Coleman Hughes 16 Jan 2019 · 7 min read
Enlightenment Wars: Some Reflections on 'Enlightenment Now,' One Year Later As Thomas Paine wrote, “To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.” Steven Pinker 14 Jan 2019 · 52 min read
Feminism's Dependency Trap Unintended and painful irony of recent feminism’s preoccupation with overcoming male oppression has been to place men at the centre of female identity. Marilyn Simon 20 Dec 2018 · 7 min read
The Children of the Revolution Mao Zedong activated China’s youth—unblemished and uncorrupted in heart and mind—to lead the struggle for purity. James David Banker 18 Dec 2018 · 9 min read
Confessions of a ‘Soulless Troglodyte’: How My Brooklyn Literary Friendships Fell Apart in the Age of Trump For a time, this urban menagerie dictated my new sense of who I wanted to be. I didn’t ask questions. It was too dazzling to stain with doubts. Lester Berg 18 Dec 2018 · 18 min read
Steven Pinker's Counter-Counter-Enlightenment Peter Harrison took exception to his “teleological view of history” and “misplaced faith in data, metrics and statistical analysis.” Saloni Dattani 11 Mar 2018 · 12 min read
Conspicuous Consumption Is Not What You Think In the 20th century, this behavior gained popularity amongst the middle class. It became “Keeping up with the Joneses.” Ryan H Murphy 3 Feb 2016 · 4 min read
