Hashtags and Terror Narratives in Toronto
Any place can seem ‘no go’ to those who’ve never gone.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
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Trans Activism's Dangerous Myth of Parental Rejection
A third problem with the belief that parental rejection is the norm is that it makes for bad policy.
Lisa Marchiano
· 13 min read
Mobs on the Menu: Restaurateurs and the Culture War
The incident at The Griffin presents a case study in how relatively small groups of activists can now leverage their power on social media.
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap
In the public debate on racial inequality, the wealth gap is among the sharpest arrows in the progressive quiver.
Coleman Hughes
· 16 min read
I Was a Female Incel
Women have acquired unprecedented sexual, economic, and political freedom in the span of a few short generations.
Hayley Morrison
· 24 min read
Is Service-Learning a Disservice to Philosophy?
The anti-theoretical tone of the service-learning movement, implicit even in the rhetoric of moderates, makes this worry reasonable.
Spencer Case
· 11 min read
What Is the Tribe of the Anti-Tribalists?
Considering some of the sobering political implications of tribalism might do more to loosen its grip on the tribalists than would more anti-tribalist rebuttals.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 25 min read
The Inequality Demagogues
The inequality demagogues reduce complex problems to an eternal cosmic struggle between the greedy, vampiric rich and the helpless, suffering poor.
Luke Killoran
· 8 min read
Understanding and Misunderstanding 'Dog-Whistling'
It is common to hear from the alt-right that words like ‘diversity’ are dog-whistles for anti-white racism.
Blake Smith
· 10 min read
The Illusion of a Gentle Machine Gun Hand
In the United States, by contrast, hawkish politicians tend not to downplay the traditional war-fighting role of the military.
Mathew Preston
· 9 min read
Devastation and Denial: Cambodia and the Academic Left
Amazingly, even as Cambodia disintegrated, the Khmer Rouge benefitted from unsolicited apologetics from intellectuals at the West’s august universities.
Matthew Blackwell
· 19 min read
I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me
Aggressive online virtue signaling is a fundamentally two-dimensional act. It has no human depth.
Barrett Wilson
· 5 min read
The Rise and Decline of Black Lives Matter: A Toronto Case Study
BLM-Toronto arguably was not equipped to handle its own success, as the group had no established source of funding or institutional infrastructure.
James Di Fiore
· 12 min read
The Transhumanism Revolution: Oppression Disguised as Liberation
The transhumanist perspective insists that humans have a distinctly separate mind and body, and that what happens to one need not affect the other.
Libby Emmons
· 10 min read
Does Progress Exist?
Progress tends to be defined as 1) change, 2) which is for the better, and crucially 3) which is driven by humans rather than arrived at evolutionarily.
Alex Smith
· 10 min read