How Ritualized Apologies Are Undermining Freedom of Expression
Ilana Redstone and John Villasenor
· 4 min read
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The Institutionalisation of Social Justice
Last year, Google engineer James Damore was fired after an internal memo he wrote was leaked to technology website Gizmodo, causing an uproar within the company.
Uri Harris
· 12 min read
Is It Sexual Harassment to Discuss This Article?
This increases the likelihood that individuals who cross the line by discussing sex differences will be warned not to repeat the behavior and will probably be okay as long as they comply.
Stuart Reges
· 8 min read
The One-Sided Worldview of Hans Rosling
The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.
Christian Berggren
· 15 min read
Do Parents Make a Difference? — A Public Debate in London
Plomin made it clear he wasn’t claiming genetic differences accounted for all the differences in how children turn out.
Toby Young
· 10 min read
In Defence of Climate Optimism
The mere climate pessimist is distinguished from the fatalist by his or her belief that the exercise of political courage can help us prevent the worst effects of global warmings before our planet is engulfed in horrors of Biblical proportion.
Ryan Glaubke
· 7 min read
A Glimpse into the Ideological Monoculture of Literary New York
According to a newly released analysis of U.S. survey data, only 8% of Americans hold views that mark them as “progressive activists”—versus 92% who may be classified as traditional liberals, moderates, conservatives or “politically disengaged.”
Matthew Binder
· 7 min read
Stupid Is as Stupid Writes
Even geniuses sound unintelligent when they use big words.
Andrew Bade
· 12 min read
The Free Speech Crisis on Campus Is Worse Than People Think
The new culture of victimhood combines sensitivity to slight with appeal to authority.
Bradley Campbell
· 16 min read
Schrödinger's Womanhood
Reconciling the two official gender narratives requires threading a needle fine enough to separate matters of personality and identity from preferences for how one spends a large portion of their waking hours.
Sebastian Cesario
· 9 min read
The Novel Isn't Dead — Please Stop Writing Eulogies
I refuse to be discouraged by the sort of novel-gone-to-the-dogs pessimism that has been around for generations.
Gabriel Scorgie
· 9 min read
How to Stop Corporate Virtue Signalling Before It's Too Late
There is a way to keep corporations in check
Josh Dehaas
· 5 min read
Charlie Kirk's Campus Battlefield — A Review
Those curious about the next cohorts of conservatives—right-leaning students currently being reared in the age of Trump—should begin with Kirk.
Grant Addison
· 13 min read
Portrait of the Artist as a False Accuser
An artist should be able to create whatever artifact she likes out of the tissue of her own reality—within such boundaries prescribed by libel law.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
The Souls of Yellow Folk — A Review
Collectively, the essays paint a fascinating and disturbing picture of pre-dystopian anomie and dissolution.
Daniel Oppenheimer
· 8 min read