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Instagram's Mental Health Emergency

The main ethical problem posed by Instagram is that young people are not mature enough to give informed consent to having their preferences harvested and fed back to them by a corporation that specialises in attention manipulation.

Claire Lehmann

4 Oct 2021 · 11 min read

Podcast #168: Jonathan Haidt on Instagram’s Mental Health Emergency

Jonathan Kay speaks with Jonathan Haidt about the emotionally destructive effect of social media on many young users.

Quillette

4 Oct 2021 · 1 min read

Inflammatory Anti-Racism

The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.

John Lloyd

29 Aug 2021 · 10 min read

The Victims’ Race

Victimhood may confer ancient and effective advantages, but researchers are nonetheless alarmed by the scale of digital self-harm in adolescents, and the recent recourse to false accusations more generally.

Tomasz Witkowski

27 Aug 2021 · 10 min read

Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done?

Loneliness was generally stable (with the bright spot being a significant drop in Asia) from 2000 to 2012 and then quickly reversed itself in all regions.

Camilo Ortiz and Stephanie De Leo

16 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

When You’re Diagnosed with Autism—by TikTok

It’s notable that no-one on TikTok is diagnosing themselves with schizophrenia or severe personality disorders such as antisocial and borderline.

Lucy Kross Wallace

3 Aug 2021 · 9 min read

Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies

Detransitioners and desisters can also feel angry at psychiatric and medical specialists, who they understandably believe have not adequately assessed their motivations for requesting medical intervention.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

30 Jul 2021 · 27 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

The Petulant Campaign Against Eric Kaufmann

The reason Kaufmann has been targeted is simply that he departs from woke ideology on issues like race, immigration and freedom of speech.

Noah Carl

23 May 2021 · 5 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part V: The Links Between Trans Identity, Gifted Minds, Categorical Thinking—And Anime

Anime offers vividly coloured worlds, in which giant-eyed kids and anthropomorphized animals conduct heroic journeys against beautifully detailed backdrops.

Angus Fox

11 May 2021 · 17 min read

Weaponizing Social Justice to Protect School Administrators and Discredit Whistle-blowers: A Canadian Case Study

Two hours to the west of Montreal, the University of Ottawa is now in the midst of its own racism-free anti-racism social panic.

Jonathan Kay

1 Apr 2021 · 18 min read

Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online?

It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.

Ray Scott Percival

21 Mar 2021 · 11 min read

Does Suffering Provide Meaning and Purpose in Life?—A Reply to Freya India

Integral to this is the issue of how much personal responsibility one should assume for a given outcome and why.

Paul Sturdee

3 Mar 2021 · 7 min read

My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough

Discussions today around Gen Z’s mental health occlude this possibility of a lack of adversity in our daily lives.

Freya India

28 Feb 2021 · 11 min read

The Narrative and Its Discontents

This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.

Jacob Falkovich

16 Feb 2021 · 9 min read