Moral Pollution In Place of Reasoned Critique
They offered many reasons why the person should not be trusted or liked, but failed to offer reasons why the person was wrong.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
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Notes from the Eye of a State-Sponsored Social Media Storm
The deliberate downplaying of dissent for both Persian and English language audiences is indicative of an attempt to fool Iranians back into submission at a time when the regime has never been more anxious about its survival.
Mariam Memarsadeghi
· 9 min read
Brotopia—Analysis and Review
Chang shows no awareness that gender parity is the exception not the rule in the US workplace.
Sean Welsh
· 13 min read
Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?
Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.
Uri Harris
· 11 min read
Righteous Among the Nations: The Rescued Tribe of Colonel Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras
With the release of their extraordinary documentary film The Rescue, Alvaro and his younger brother Boris haven’t just faced up to their clan’s history. They have turned it into high art.
Geoffrey Clarfield
· 6 min read
Don't Get Fooled Again: The Continuing Necessity of Anti-Communism
The socialist experiment has been run and the results are in: it is a failure—Revolution => Dictatorship => Horror.
Murray Bessette
· 12 min read
A New Kind of Economy—An Interview with Andrew Yang
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.
Peter Clarke
· 17 min read
Writers Behind ‘Grievance Studies Scandal’ Address Criticisms
The three of you have continually stated your leftist political identity in your writing and on your social media accounts. How is your political affiliation relevant to the project?
Andy Ngo
· 8 min read
The Virtue of Nationalism—An Internationalist's Critique
The second and most impressive section of the book lays out Hazony’s principled arguments for adopting a vision of the world order characterized by an 'order of independent nation states.'
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
On the Fallibility of Memory and the Importance of Evidence
As individuals making personal judgments about the truthfulness of Kavanaugh and Ford, we are not held to the same standards as our justice system.
Tyler Watkins
· 18 min read
A Liberal’s Plea for a Moderate Immigration Policy
Instead of signaling as loudly as possible one’s membership in a tribe, we need to make a habit of trying to discover the facts that bear on a set of issues, including immigration, and then demand that our elected officials use those facts to craft practical solutions.
Lynette Craig
· 8 min read
Effective vs. Pathological Altruism
What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?
Jonathan Anomaly
· 5 min read
Banned Books Week: 10 Pop Fictions to Annoy the Politically Correct
These are the books you should read with great ostentation at sidewalk bistros, corner restaurants, and in doctors’ waiting rooms.
Kevin Mims
· 15 min read
How An Anonymous Accusation Derailed My Life
#MeToo was an expression of solidarity but there is no solidarity for the accused.
Stephen Elliott
· 11 min read
Suffragists Fought for the Female Sex
The response to my posters shows that the phrase ‘female sex’ is on its way to being classified as ‘hate speech.’
Renee Gerlich
· 8 min read