The Case Against Lockdown: A Reply to Christopher Snowdon No doubt the pandemic would have had a negative impact on the global economy ceteris paribus, but it has surely been exacerbated by the lockdowns. Toby Young 5 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
Are Elite Colleges Really That Bad? Issues of happiness and conformity notwithstanding, one might still wonder about the affirmative case for elite colleges, especially when considering the effort it takes to gain admittance to one. Nick Whitaker 12 Nov 2019 · 10 min read
Palestine Misunderstood Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination. Petra Marquardt-Bigman 31 Oct 2019 · 9 min read
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 · 13 min read
Against Determinism—A Brief Reply to Jerry Coyne The unambiguous conclusion seems to be that people are better off believing in either libertarian free will (which grants us complete agency) or the intuitive compatibilism (which grants us compromised agency) that they tend to favour. William Tomos Edwards 3 Sep 2019 · 5 min read
Is Liberal Immigration Anti-Democratic?—A Reply to Gadi Taub Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all. Sam Kiss 5 Aug 2019 · 12 min read
Secular Morality Does Not Depend on Faith Here, then, we have a secular ethics connected not to 'nothing,' but to a preference for justice, fairness, and impartiality. Jerry A. Coyne 11 May 2019 · 3 min read
On the IDW: A Response to Eric Weinstein We’re not going to return to a worldview that acts as if society is identity-blind. Uri Harris 5 May 2019 · 6 min read
Values, Even Secular Ones, Depend on Faith: A Reply to Jerry Coyne I wasn’t saying that secular humanism is a religion. I was saying that in those aspects of religion which actually affect and seek to guide human behavior, secular humanism does not differ from religion. John Staddon 28 Apr 2019 · 2 min read
Alessandro Strumia: Another Politically-Correct Witch-Hunt, or a More Complicated Story? Hossenfelder—who believes women in science are still held back by sexist cultural biases but also opposes preferential treatment as a shortcut to equality—is a welcome exception. Cathy Young 22 Apr 2019 · 12 min read
The Case for a Second Brexit Referendum Revisited: A Response to Madeline Grant In the 2017 Act, Parliament simply gave permission to the Government to make the notification under Article 50, and negotiate a Withdrawal Agreement. Oliver Conolly 6 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Population and Policy—A Rejoinder to Szurmak and Desrochers S&D argue that market economies will fix all negative side-effects of technological development spontaneously because of the commercial value of the effluents. Christian Berggren 22 Dec 2018 · 4 min read
The One-sided Worldview of Eco-Pessimists Pessimists see the goal of human activity as minimizing human impacts; optimists understand the goal of human activity to be maximizing human flourishing. Joanna Szurmak and Pierre Desrochers 3 Dec 2018 · 14 min read
A Reply to Nick Cohen My description of the Islamic veil as a strategic tool in the struggle for control of the public space causes Cohen great indignation. Pascal Bruckner 27 Nov 2018 · 4 min read
Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong. Pamela Paresky 14 Oct 2018 · 12 min read
