Interrogating Jane In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women. Lona Manning 26 Apr 2021 · 12 min read
The White of the AI The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic. Sean Welsh 23 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will āLong COVIDā Become the Next Gender Ideology? Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generationāand it certainly wonāt be the last. Jonathan Kay 15 Apr 2021 · 9 min read
How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed? The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment. Samantha Jones 10 Apr 2021 · 11 min read
Taboo: Why Is Africa the Global COVID āCold Spotā and Why Are We Afraid to Talk About It? Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Jon Entine / Patrick Whittle 30 Mar 2021 · 21 min read
The Campaign to Thwart Paleogenetic Research Into North America's Indigenous Peoples In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia. Bruce Bourque 29 Mar 2021 · 20 min read
Sex, Drugs, and Antiquity The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion. Clifton Ross 19 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse SingalāAnd Why It Matters One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs arenāt especially conservative in their views. Jonathan Kay 18 Mar 2021 · 13 min read
Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities. Sean Welsh 16 Mar 2021 · 10 min read
Lockdown Scepticism Was Never a āFringeā Viewpoint The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, ābut is not dependentā on their use. Noah Carl 2 Mar 2021 · 11 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally donāt go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent. Quillette 17 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks The smileys are not bad people. They are not necessarily unintelligent people. They are unhappy people wearing a mask of happiness, confused and beaten and searching for an easy answer. Christopher J. Snowdon 16 Jan 2021 · 19 min read
National Borders are Not Going Away The only examples of ready mergers in humans bring to mind the captive chimps or fugitive monkeys. Mark W. Moffett 30 Dec 2020 · 6 min read
The End of the World as We Know It? The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides. Glenn T. Stanton 11 Dec 2020 · 15 min read
The Apocalyptic Threat from Artificial Intelligence Isnāt Science Fiction The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now. James D. Miller 3 Dec 2020 · 11 min read
