Venezuela and the Half-Truths of Noam Chomsky
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.
Clifton Ross
· 13 min read
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Dragged Across Concrete—A Review
In a cultural moment that has seen reputations destroyed by a single tweet, each transgression can become the entirety of a person’s character.
David G. Hughes
· 6 min read
When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell them the Truth
The climate debate is a complicated one. It requires the careful weighing of interests and trade-offs, not the uncompromising fanaticism of an absolutist.
Kathrine Jebsen Moore
· 8 min read
Towards a Worker's Bill of Rights
This article proposes an outline of what such a measure might look like in order to provide a starting point for discussions.
Gideon Scopes
· 9 min read
An Interview With Lisa Littman, Who Coined the Term ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’
This research explores, through the reports of parents, a phenomenon whereby teens and young adults who did not exhibit childhood signs of gender issues appeared to suddenly identify as transgender.
Jonathan Kay
· 18 min read
The Mismeasurements of Stephen Jay Gould
Gould believed this bias was rampant in particular scholarly fields, and the most prominent target for his criticism in The Mismeasure of Man was the study of intelligence, especially IQ testing and the genetics of mental ability.
Russell T. Warne
· 11 min read
Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.
Coleman Hughes
· 14 min read
Old Masters Remix: A review of 'Life Death Rebirth', the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
Jacob Willer
· 12 min read
The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture
Leaving gaps of understanding will not help future generations understand our time, and it will not assist students of history in getting a clean grasp of what happened or why.
Libby Emmons
· 7 min read
Paul Manafort and Systemic Bias
Proffering individual/extreme cases like those of Manafort or Turner and weaving them into broad system-wide narratives is not only epistemologically unsound, it is also needlessly incendiary and tactically ill advised.
Joshua Hunter
· 8 min read
The French Genocide That Has Been Air-Brushed From History
For the most influential historians who held positions of power in major French institutions, the French Revolution was not a research topic but an origin myth—the heart of their secular faith’s cosmology.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
· 18 min read
Harvard’s Flawed Response to Ronald Sullivan Joining Weinstein’s Defense Team
Students demanding his ouster have difficulty making the essential distinction between a lawyer and his client.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 10 min read
Thoreau and the Primitivist Temptation
Abbey’s book is just one example in a sea of recent works of literature, film, and music, which romanticize the idea of leaving society behind to live—often alone—close to nature.
Erich J. Prince
· 8 min read
Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism
Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Why I'm Suing Twitter
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read