Man vs. Wall: Solitary Sport and Surviving the Pandemic
In our hyper-connected times, personal resilience is a muscle worth exercising.
Matt Fuchs
· 6 min read
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With a Star Science Reporter's Purging, Mob Culture at The New York Times Enters a Strange New Phase
But since these same Times managers had already shown staff they can be bullied by office mobs, it was predictable that McNeil eventually would be thrown beneath the Times bus (an increasingly crowded place), which is why he now finds himself unemployed and begging for forgiveness.
Quillette
· 8 min read
A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot
The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.
Michael Humeniuk
· 12 min read
The Delusions of Crowds—A Review
Published in 1841, Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is as amusing a survey of human folly as has ever been written.
Clayton Trutor
· 8 min read
Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice
Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
Suicide Prevention and the Social Science Cargo Cult
Social science can be a valuable means of understanding the world and improving human well-being when it is rigorously and practically applied.
Tomasz Witkowski
· 9 min read
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
· 8 min read
‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts
When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.
Dorian S. Abbot
· 8 min read
Scottish Nationalists in Turmoil
The trans argument shows how easily it may be rocked back on its heels. Neither of the two women at loggerheads are transphobic on any but an extreme definition; they merely differ about how easy it should be to register a sex change.
John Lloyd
· 10 min read
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 16 min read
‘Taking Cara’ Business: A New Mom’s Anxious Glimpse Into the World of Baby-Sleep Consultants
Being a new mom who wanted the best for my child, I felt anxious about having fallen into what I was told was suboptimal behaviour.
Tara Nykyforiak
· 8 min read
Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished
It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.
Matthew Wardour
· 7 min read
China and the Question of Taiwan
In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.
Aaron Sarin
· 13 min read
Dictatorship and Responsibility in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s political culture is being dismantled.
Peter Baehr
· 16 min read
In Defense of Shame
In reducing sex to a basic mechanical function in the service of health, we have covered the uniquely human parts of ourselves that should be engaged during sex and lost precisely what makes sex sexy—what transforms its mechanics into mystery.
Marilyn Simon
· 10 min read