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Our Fast Food Social Media Diet

In this age of omnipresent social media, our greatest challenge may be figuring out how to take advantage of the benefits of the technology that can connect us to each other without suffering serious social costs.

Clay Routledge

24 Oct 2018 · 7 min read

Inside the US Government Agency where Identity Politics Was Born

But while observers have correctly focused on the lessons that may be inferred about high academic culture in the United States, it should be noted that the drifts of the liberal arts into postmodern gibberish has not been an isolated phenomenon.

Michael Gonzalez

23 Oct 2018 · 9 min read

The Death of the First Amendment in Cyberspace

Social media became instrumental in the toppling of dictators in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen and, in 2010, it was Mark Zuckerberg’s turn to be awarded Time’s Person of the Year.

Jacob Mchangama

22 Oct 2018 · 7 min read

The Spectrum of Black Contrarianism

The likes of Thomas Sowell and Larry Elder reject not only the economic program of the Left but also the racial grievance politics of black activists and politicians.

John R. Wood, Jr.

20 Oct 2018 · 11 min read

Why It's Time to End Factory Farming

Think about the horses who were replaced by cars. Cars do the same thing horses do—they move people from one place to another—but without all the crap.

Jacy Reese

20 Oct 2018 · 6 min read

Representation and the Communitarianization of Cinema

Identity has become the locus of cultural value and representation the means of its transmission.

Oliver Whiskard

18 Oct 2018 · 10 min read

What Good Is Evolutionary Psychology?

Without an understanding of the selection pressures that shaped our minds, much of human existence is frustratingly bewildering.

Tristan Flock

17 Oct 2018 · 7 min read

Deepities and the Politics of Pseudo-Profundity

The claim that “all politics is identity politics,” is not coherent. On one reading, it says something that’s true but irrelevant. And on another reading, it says something that’s false, but would be highly relevant if true.

Coleman Hughes

16 Oct 2018 · 9 min read

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

14 Oct 2018 · 13 min read

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

13 Oct 2018 · 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

12 Oct 2018 · 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 Oct 2018 · 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.