Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking It is not hopeless. A recent analysis of research on college graduates suggested that attending college appreciably increased their critical thinking capacity. Greg Ashman 20 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
Environmentalism, Trumpism, and the Working Class As wide as the partisan gaps are concerning illegal immigration and free trade, none can compare to those on environmental protection and global warming. William Murray 20 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Growing Up Without a Father-Figure Can Make Boys Less Violent While there is likely a modest link between violent crime and single parenting, Faust and Manning are wrong about the benefits of a father-figure. Robert Cherry 19 Feb 2021 · 7 min read
Towards Practical Empowerment In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy. Erec Smith 19 Feb 2021 · 10 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t 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
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
Do Lockdowns Work? Only If You Lock the Borders Down, Too The public debate around COVID-19 has too often centred on the question of whether a certain set of measures, usually classified as lockdowns, are or are not effective. Noah Carl 15 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
Scott Alexander, Philosopher King of the Weird People Rationalists, in short, are a group of people who picked up the liberal, academic, philosophical traditions of Western civilization when institutions like the New York Times decided to abandon them. Kenneth R. Pike 14 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
COVID-19 and the Ongoing Global Workplace Revolution The pandemic has done much to undermine the basis for urban supremacy. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 14 Feb 2021 · 14 min read
Struggling with Pixar’s 'Soul' If heaven needs to be segregated, what hope does Earth have? Colm O'Shea 12 Feb 2021 · 12 min read
Oscar Wilde’s Utopia The great conflict within the Left during the 19th century was between anarchist and statist visions for socialism (this was the bone of contention between Bakunin and Marx, and for many revolutionaries long after). Jared Marcel Pollen 12 Feb 2021 · 11 min read
Making the Profane Sacred It is an attack on the free reporting of information if context no longer matters, and it is an attack on education if a respectful discussion about language itself risks dismissal. Lawrence M. Krauss 11 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us. Glenn C. Loury 10 Feb 2021 · 20 min read
The Attack on Timothy Jackson Is an Assault on Liberal Education The only way students can resist this commodification of their identities is by occupying an unsafe space—getting an education that will encourage them to escape what they think they already are. Bruno Chaouat 9 Feb 2021 · 8 min read
Man vs. Wall: Solitary Sport and Surviving the Pandemic In our hyper-connected times, personal resilience is a muscle worth exercising. Matt Fuchs 9 Feb 2021 · 6 min read
