Nobody Should Listen to Twitter Mobs
Vox characterized the practice of dredging up tweets and trying to get people fired over them an “alt right” tactic.
Daniel Friedman
· 8 min read
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The World According to Realism
Realism’s central premise is that relations between states can be explained by the distribution of power in the international system.
Ryan Zielonka
· 9 min read
A Striking Similarity: The Revolutionary Findings of Twin Studies
The British psychologist Cyril Burt had been accused of falsifying the results of twin studies and related research into the heritability of IQ.
Henrik B. Dynesen
· 10 min read
The Three Languages of Politics—A Review
In The Three Languages of Politics, Kling argues that to understand our political opponents, we need to update the way we frame disagreements.
Tristan Flock
· 7 min read
Is There Anybody In There?—Derek Parfit’s Criticism of the Self
Parfit was concerned with the perplexing question of the self and personal identity. Do we have self? If so, what is it? Does the self possess any value?
Matt McManus
· 11 min read
The Decline of the Humanities and What To Do About It
Assessing the genesis of these problems requires a broad historical background understanding, because sociology stands at the nexus of the social sciences and the humanities.
Lachlann Tierney
· 9 min read
The Infantilization of Black America
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
Tosin Akintola
· 8 min read
Britain's Populist Revolt
Britain has produced a Brexit debate that is utterly dry, sterile, and completely lacking in imagination.
Matthew Goodwin
· 22 min read
The Death of the Author and the End of Empathy
The Nation’s editors are now taking aim at language itself, reducing the complexity of human communication to a primitive understanding of words.
Heather Mac Donald
· 7 min read
Reclaiming Work as a Virtue
Somewhere along the way, many of the intellectual classes stopped believing in work as essential to survival.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine
· 12 min read
Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers
Gatekeeping is not about saying “yes” or “no” straight-up.
Libby DownUnder
· 12 min read
My Social-Media Suicide Note
“There’s no better time than now to delete.” (Position this one against a background of a man in canoe swimming away to a proxy of freedom.)
JD Jagiello
· 9 min read
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
While social media inflames tensions, the law aims to remove emotion and passion from disputes.
Katy Barnett
· 18 min read
"Liberals Have Compromised on Their Own Values": An Interview with Ali A. Rizvi
Europeans challenged their own religion during the Enlightenment, and we’re all benefiting from their efforts today. But when non-Europeans want to do the same, it’s ‘Islamophobia’?
Maarten Boudry, Ali A. Rizvi
· 17 min read
Unmaking Affirmative Action
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.
Stephen T. Asma
· 11 min read