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Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole—A Review

In the 1980s, when political correctness was slowly brewing in parts of academia, Isaac Asimov claimed democracy was under attack.

Göran Adamson

11 Aug 2021 · 7 min read

The Canadian Historical Association’s Fake 'Consensus' on Canadian Genocide

The campaign to label Canada a genocide state isn’t an isolated phenomenon, but is playing out as part of a larger effort to destroy any publicly displayed symbol of national pride.

Christopher Dummitt

10 Aug 2021 · 11 min read

Watching America’s Crack-Up

America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead.

Benjamin Kerstein

9 Aug 2021 · 20 min read

COVID-Zero: Was It Worth It?

If COVID-19 was your ancestor’s saber-tooth tiger, then the lives lost every day to COVID-Zero is the cost of running away.

James Newburrie

9 Aug 2021 · 11 min read

Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind

The following is an excerpt from Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind, by Hrishikesh Joshi. Routledge, 196 pages. (March 2021) The division of cognitive labor Modern society is only possible because of the division of labor. Without division of labor, the most we could achieve is a very

Hrishikesh Joshi

6 Aug 2021 · 23 min read

The World Economic Forum and the Misleading Politics of Gender Equality

Women fall behind in countries with low levels of economic and social development, largely due to poor educational opportunities.

David C. Geary and Gijsbert Stoet

6 Aug 2021 · 12 min read

The Society of Cultural Anthropology’s Campaign to Present American Populism as Fascism

The January 6th riot does make for a visually dramatic backdrop to an exploration of the fascistic strain in modern populist politics.

Matthew Porter

5 Aug 2021 · 8 min read

The Incoherence of Gender Ideology

To understand the coherence and moral import of transgender rights claims, we must first define what it is that we mean by “transgender.”

Michael Robillard

4 Aug 2021 · 21 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

A Treasure Trove of Priceless Pornography

One might be skeptical about Pornhub’s claim that their interactive guide is a way to raise museum attendance in the wake of the pandemic-induced hiatus.

Julia Friedman

31 Jul 2021 · 11 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

The Subversive Simone Weil—A Review

Chastising the followers of Marx for ignoring workers’ actual experiences, Weil was almost a nominalist, and she awaited insights, as opposed to going in search of them.

Seamus Flaherty

30 Jul 2021 · 8 min read

Charles Murray's 'Facing Reality'—A Review

Facing Reality attempts to force into view data that many Americans would rather not acknowledge.

Razib Khan

29 Jul 2021 · 12 min read

Vaccines and the Coronavirus Crank Crisis

Wrong to the bitter end, sceptics have taken this as a vindication of their do-nothing strategy and are celebrating the decline of a summer surge they said could never happen.

Christopher J. Snowdon

28 Jul 2021 · 16 min read

Listening to Literature—What We Gain and Lose with Audiobooks

The whole was something closer to verbal jazz.

Art Edwards

28 Jul 2021 · 20 min read