Redefining Sexual Harassment
Sexist comments and “ambient harassment” are, by their very nature, more ambiguous than a boss’s groping or demands for sexual favours.
Claire Lehmann
· 12 min read
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How the #MeToo Movement Helped Create a Script for False Accusers
Web sites such as Project Unbreakable, notwithstanding the good intentions behind their creation, can serve as a resource kit for dishonest complainants.
Diana Davison
· 10 min read
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife
Without voluntary associations, we tend to reduce unfamiliar individuals down to a set of salient features.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 14 min read
Germaine Greer's 'On Rape'—A Review
As an answer to the conundrum of consent I don’t think much of it.
Matthew Scott
· 11 min read
Reasons to Be Fearful
Under current social conditions, even the most layered and qualified opinions can be distorted, misrepresented, over-simplified, exaggerated, and generally treated as those of enemies whose voices must be shut down.
Russell Blackford
· 5 min read
A Racial Shakedown in Portland
The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
As a Toronto Mob Brays, David Frum and Steve Bannon Joust over Populism’s Split Soul
Is populism a polite synonym for xenophobia—or a righteous movement to wrest power from elites?
Jonathan Kay
· 11 min read
A Mania for All Seasons: The Continuing Importance of 'The Devils of Loudun'
Huxley’s dissection of a seventeenth century social pandemonium, whipped up in an era of shifting sexual mores, is a timeless indictment of the latent monstrousness within all human beings.
Samuel McGee-Hall
· 11 min read
Trigger Warnings and Mass Psychogenic Illness
While a trigger warning in theory guards against trauma, it has the actual effect of multiplying claims of trauma by students who are primed to expect it and have a ready-made lexicon to describe both its effects and the outrages that bring it on.
Stewart Justman
· 10 min read
An Imaginary Racism: Islamophobia and Guilt—A Review
The explosion in identity politics that has led to the automatic use of “white” as an ethnic insult in condemnations such as “white privilege” and “white, straight men” has made race as defining a factor in left-wing politics as it is in extreme right-wing politics.
Nick Cohen
· 10 min read
Nazis: A Modern Field Guide
In the spirit of the Handbook on German Military Forces, I offer readers this brief field guide to the various kinds of “Nazis” who inhabit the world of 2018.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
On God and Politics: Comparing Žižek and Peterson
Both claim to not believe in some God who literally exists as an independent being. Both believe that a proper conception of God engenders support for the individual and personal freedom.
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
Silencing Women in the Name of Trans Activism
Since I made my story public, Goldstein has tried to suggest that he is the true victim, and that he was bullied into apologizing to me (“a decision I now retract”).
Julie Bindel
· 8 min read
Upholding the Jihadist's Veto
The Court’s decision therefore constitutes a clear and present danger to the emerging consensus that blasphemy laws are incompatible with international human rights law.
Jacob Mchangama and Flemming Rose
· 7 min read
Previously Unrecognized Rights: Climate Change Lawsuits and the Rule of Law
Environmental advocates are asking courts to halt allegedly harmful private and public initiatives on the basis of ancient Roman law, common law doctrines, international agreements and norms, and innovative interpretations of constitutions.
James Huffman
· 12 min read