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After Academia

We need to stop wringing our hands over how to save academia and acknowledge that its disease is terminal. This need not be cause for solemnity; it can inspire celebration.

Allen Farrington

9 May 2019 · 10 min read

A Single Global Standard for Internet Content Regulation Is a Recipe for Censorship

If we are to realize Zuckerberg´s idea of an internet that is “safe” from “harmful” content, we will have to choose which groups get to enjoy a digital safe space.

Jacob Mchangama

6 May 2019 · 13 min read

The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’

Unfortunately for some activists, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers.

Anna Slatz

26 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Secular Humanism is Not a Religion

Staddon makes an oddly tendentious argument for the religious character of secular humanism.

Jerry A. Coyne

22 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

The rise of populism, of Trump, of opiate epidemics, of bitter polarization, and of yawning economic inequality have tempered the triumphalism of those who once celebrated the inevitable victory of markets and democracy.

Bo Winegard and Ben Winegard

21 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

How to Prevent Campus Deplatformings: Lessons from Harvey Mansfield and Concordia University

Universities have no obligation to invite any particular public figure to speak on campus. But once they’ve promised someone a platform, the stakes are raised: Both speaker and audience are invested in the outcome.

Jonathan Kay

19 Apr 2019 · 14 min read

Jordan Peterson, And the New Chivalry

Peterson could remain detached from the people who seek his help, but he is courageous enough to connect with their pain, and thereby render himself vulnerable in the public forum.

Esther O'Reilly

12 Apr 2019 · 12 min read

From Hegemonic to Responsive Masculinity: the Transformative Power of the Provider Role

There is little evidence to justify why the provider role has been held in such low regard.

Belinda Brown

11 Apr 2019 · 11 min read

Is Secular Humanism a Religion?

In terms of moral rules, secular humanism is indistinguishable from a religion.

John Staddon

11 Apr 2019 · 6 min read

Europe's New Beggars

An elite discourse condones destructive behavior and reinterprets a denigrating hand-to-mouth existence as an alternative lifestyle

Johan Wennström

10 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

Conservatives Need to Start Taking Art Seriously

Because many conservative journals have given up on the subject of art entirely, one is tempted to ask what conservatives are seeking to actually conserve.

Michael J. Pearce

9 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

How The Campaign Against Cultural Appropriation Came Back to Haunt Canada’s Indigenous Peoples

The idea of segregating musical styles by race sits in opposition to what we know about the way music is made—which is often through cultural cross-pollination.

Neil Gray

8 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

How Our Little Humanist Club Got Taken Over by Social Justice Dogmatists

It seems wrong that the Executive Director of a humanist association should be able to use his organization’s governing mechanisms to shut down pushback against his publicly expressed ideological agenda.