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Stuyvesant is one of eight “specialized high schools” in New York which admit students on the basis of their scores on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT).
To insinuate that Jordan Peterson is a contributor to sectarianism and division is the opposite of the truth.
How can students advocate for speech codes and still believe that freedom of speech is secure?
The time may soon come when a more sophisticated neuroscience will render arguments of morality and free will effectively null.
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.
In a cultural moment that has seen reputations destroyed by a single tweet, each transgression can become the entirety of a person’s character.
The climate debate is a complicated one. It requires the careful weighing of interests and trade-offs, not the uncompromising fanaticism of an absolutist.
This article proposes an outline of what such a measure might look like in order to provide a starting point for discussions.
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.
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.
At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
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.
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.
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.