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The Philosophy of Pansexualism

If sexual attraction to older people is relatively uncommon, what about attraction to those who do not match one’s sexual orientation?

Raja Halwani

29 Aug 2020 · 15 min read

The Fall of Beirut

Calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.

Art Keller

28 Aug 2020 · 11 min read

COVID-19 Returns to New Zealand

The outbreak has dented the exemplary record of the New Zealand government in dealing with COVID-19.

Sean Welsh

27 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Neglecting At-Risk Children in the Name of Cultural Sensitivity

She has more than 20 years of experience working with families and children in true crisis, including with issues ranging from rape, to drug addiction, to terminal illness

Hal Niedzviecki

26 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

A Lady’s Duty to Submit—Then And Now

I didn’t need Pellman and Hatch to understand that many women are still expected to submit to males, and that some males want us to believe that they are helplessly driven by sexual urges that we females must indulge.

Amy Eileen Hamm

25 Aug 2020 · 11 min read

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.

Philippe Lemoine

24 Aug 2020 · 30 min read

Guilt Trip: A Son's Memoir

I had been heartless about her pain. She had absorbed my selfishness without complaint, never once calling me out about it.

Aaron Rhodes

22 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

'Science Fictions' Review: Begone, Science Swindlers

Science Fictions is engaging, story-led, and well-organised. It will equip my sad young friend to articulate what went wrong with his charity’s study on literacy and, as importantly, to do the next one well.

Rosalind Arden

21 Aug 2020 · 10 min read

International Scholars Must Resist the American Campaign to Inject Racial Tribalism Into Science

We retain the belief that, in supposedly pluralistic societies, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. We urge other scientists not to follow the American example, and to resist the campaign to racialize science.

Andreas Bikfalvi and Marcel Kuntz

21 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

Pax Americana is Here to Stay

Lost in much of the fretting (or boasting) about American declinism is the massive lead the American economy continues to hold over China, despite four decades of rapid growth for the latter.

Imran Said

18 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature

What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.

Charlotte Allen

17 Aug 2020 · 13 min read

On This Day in 1945, Japan Released Me from a POW Camp. Then US Pilots Saved My Life

These were veterans of the long Pacific campaign. They’d survived many terrible encounters with the Japanese in their westward campaign across the Pacific, and they looked the part.

George MacDonell

15 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

The Floridian Inquisition

This investigation was obviously undertaken in retaliation for Negy’s protected tweets, and it is serving its purpose: How many professors are going to be willing to speak out if the result is a nine-hour inquisition followed by an almost inevitable punishment?

Samantha Harris

13 Aug 2020 · 5 min read

Ordeal by Title IX

This approach has been greeted with hostility by many colleagues. This is understandable, for it challenges humanists to climb down from the ivory tower and make their research directly relevant to the public.

Robert Frodeman

13 Aug 2020 · 27 min read

The Problems with Discrimination Research in Medicine

The narrative that has emerged from the conclusions of these limited studies could inadvertently cause some populations to avoid medical follow-up and form an inaccurate view of healthcare practices.

Zachary Robert Caverley

13 Aug 2020 · 12 min read