Is It Time to Regulate Social Media?
We would not tolerate a phone company cutting off somebody’s service because of the words they used in their conversations.
Matthew Mott
· 8 min read
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Stereotypes Are Often Harmful, and Accurate
Stereotyping begets many social problems, but you seldom solve a problem by mischaracterizing its nature.
Noam Shpancer
· 13 min read
The 'Black Chic' Wave
To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.
Coleman Hughes
· 8 min read
The Counterproductive Suppression of Heterodox Views on Race
In the prevailing academic climate, those who offer dissenting analyses of the problems afflicting black communities, or who support unpopular social policies designed to alleviate those problems, risk censorship, ostracization, and even the loss of employment.
Robert Cherry
· 11 min read
When Censorship Is Crowdsourced
The very writers, publishers, poets, musicians, comedians, media producers and artists who once worried about being muzzled by the government are now self-organizing on social media (Twitter, especially) to censor each other.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Reflections on the Revolution at Yale
Yale cannot help but indulge the claims—no matter how overblown—levelled against it by activists.
Jamie Kirchick
· 7 min read
Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
Theodore P. Hill
· 14 min read
Sweden's General Election Turmoil
Sweden used to be at the top of many international rankings of equality and affluence, but has slipped in recent years.
Paulina Neuding
· 5 min read
A Facebook Engineer's Plea for Political Diversity
So far, Amerige has not been fired from Facebook as James Damore was fired from Google a year ago.
Gideon Scopes
· 7 min read
Is Safetyism Destroying a Generation?
Students now work in tandem with administrators to make their campus ‘safe’ from threatening ideas.
Matthew Lesh
· 10 min read
Identity Politics Does More Harm Than Good to Minorities
The day is fast approaching when mainstream white society will react to accusations of racism with yawns and shrugs. What will identitarians do then?
Remi Adekoya
· 11 min read
As a Former Dean of Harvard Medical School, I Question Brown’s Failure to Defend Lisa Littman
Pursuing unorthodox scholarship can lead to frustration and failure, to exciting breakthroughs, or anything in between.
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 8 min read
Why Do We Feel the Need to Transgender the Dead?
It wasn’t that these women cross-dressed to be men. It’s that they cross-dressed not to be women.
Julian Vigo
· 10 min read
I Sold My Soul on Twitter. Now I’m Trying to Win It Back
All I cared about was getting to bask in the negative energy of someone else’s crappy life, so that I didn’t have to confront my own.
Jamie Kilstein
· 8 min read
What Is the Law?
How can we base any stable conception of law on moral notions about which reasonable people are bound to disagree?
Matt McManus
· 11 min read