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 13 Mar 2019 · 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 13 Mar 2019 · 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 10 Mar 2019 · 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 5 Mar 2019 · 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 5 Mar 2019 · 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 27 Feb 2019 · 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 26 Feb 2019 · 10 min read
We Must Defend Free Thought Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself. Claire Lehmann 24 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
My Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement Part of the problem in discussing this is that the meaning of words, as used in some-but-not-all Social Justice-speak, often differs from common usage. Lee Jussim 24 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science The bottom line is that professional guilds such as the APA and AAP have a demonstrable track record of unreliability when speaking on matters of science. Christopher J. Ferguson 23 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
High Theory and Low Seriousness A travel folder signifies Death. Coal holes represent the Underworld. Soda crackers are the Host. Three bottles of beer are—it’s obvious. Gustav Jönsson 15 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
The Origins of Colourism As revealed in the documentary, this view takes an emotional toll on dark women, who are discriminated against in all sorts of ways. Matthew Blackwell 13 Feb 2019 · 13 min read
Borking Neomi Rao The scene, in other words, was all set for Kamala Harris to underline the powerlessness of women during Rao’s confirmation hearings. Heather Mac Donald 12 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem. Evan Osborne 9 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech? Pluralism has been curiously absent from the BDS debate, which is currently gridlocked over the more narrow question of state neutrality. Aaron Sibarium 8 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
