Retracting a Controversial Paper Won’t Help Female Scientists
No scientific study is perfect and AlShebli et al.’s is certainly no exception.
Tania Reynolds
· 18 min read
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Why Is Scientific Illiteracy So Acceptable?
The Enlightenment was well-named because it led to a greater understanding of ourselves, our society, and our environment, and was accompanied by the rise of the scientific method.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 7 min read
The Life and Death of Unus Annus
The project provided a unique and occasionally profound experience and a new perspective with which many of its fans had not engaged before—and all that from a YouTube channel!
Nathan Eatwell
· 7 min read
The Fragility of Modern Education in the Time of COVID-19
The COVID-related disruptions of schooling have scattered hundreds of millions of children and adolescents across an archipelago of small islands that are not well-suited to fostering modern educational goals.
David C. Geary
· 15 min read
Kin, Tribes, and the Dark Side of Identity
A politics based on membership in a particular religious, racial, or social group rather than broader groupings of people with the same political views was a dubious luxury that our species can simply no longer afford.
Robert Lynch
· 15 min read
Making the World Safe for Autocracy
Brian Stewart
· 4 min read
OnlyFans and the Changing Face of Pornography
OnlyFans is successful, not because it’s extreme, but because it’s innovative. Traditionally, pornography has only really allowed consumers to be passive voyeurs and therefore to see performers as not much more than sexual objects.
Ariel Anderssen
· 8 min read
Victimhood or Development?
It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.
On the Cusp of a Vaccine—and a Historic Scientific Triumph
What is unique about our time is not “the awful spectacle of men dying like sheep,” as Thucydides put it, but the success of scientists in bringing many such spectacles to an end.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Commemorating Mary
Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary each paid a high price for defying convention. They both entered into relationships out-of-wedlock at a time when doing so was enough to put a woman out of good society.
Lona Manning
· 10 min read
Totally Under Control—A Review
Totally Under Control is squarely focused on the bungling, mismanagement, and incoherence of the Trump administration.
Razib Khan
· 14 min read
Liberalism—Decline or Survival
It would be a mistake to conflate “adaptive” with “good.” But similarly, it is a mistake to conflate “good” with “sustainable.”
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 6 min read
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good
For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.
Jonathan Kay
· 16 min read
Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars—A Review
Most instructors on campus who revealed their political views also showed themselves to be a part of the Left
Clayton Trutor
· 8 min read
Does Racism Explain Black Disadvantage?
Empirically testing the hypothesis that racism accounts for most or all of black disadvantage poses enormous challenges.
G. E. Zuriff
· 9 min read