Jordan Peterson Rallies Portlandia’s Dissidents
Inside, Mr. Peterson caught glimpses of the protest on a mobile phone while waiting backstage. “These are the brave masked people?
Andy Ngo
· 6 min read
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Free Speech and the Capitulation of the SPLC
The SPLC, which had already removed the “Field Guide” from its website in April, issued a retraction and an apology—and agreed to pay Nawaz a $3.4 million settlement.
Cathy Young
· 7 min read
Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Displace Asians In New York's Top Schools
Just 4 percent of specialized high school students got in under this program in 2017, but de Blasio will expand this program to fill 20 percent of the seats.
Daniel Friedman
· 11 min read
What Jordan Peterson Gets Wrong About the Beatitudes
The problem is that Peterson is claiming that the Bible endorses the same idea of effectual personhood that he does.
Justin Shelby
· 12 min read
Shibboleths That Exclude in the Name of Inclusion
Does the applicant have experience teaching students from a variety of backgrounds? Have they worked respectfully and effectively with those students?
Sebastian Cesario
· 12 min read
Politics Are Not the Sum of a Person
Politics is important, but it is only a means to an end. Human flourishing, or the good life, is the proper end of social life.
Ryan Fazio
· 9 min read
Privilege Versus Paranoia
Privilege is framed as a condition that, once acquired, can never be cured.
Steve Salerno
· 5 min read
'Cultural Marxism' Explained and Re-Evaluated
That culture (ideas, religious beliefs, values, etc.) is in the last instance determined by one’s position in a class or social hierarchy.
Galen Watts
· 10 min read
Can Heterodoxy Save the Academy?
Notes from the recent Heterodox Academy conference.
Andy Ngo
· 7 min read
Notes From an Academic Paper Mill
Colleges offering online courses could make some basic technical adjustments to preclude most of this cheating if they cared to do so.
Tammy Sheeran
· 8 min read
Harvard Thinks Rich People Are Better Than You
Harvard admissions officials contend that Asians have lower scores on measures of personality, including items for courage, likability, kindness and being “widely respected.
Daniel Friedman
· 7 min read
'Factfulness'—A Review
Factfulness identifies ten instincts we all share, which tend to over-dramatize the world as we see it.
Lyle Broom
· 7 min read
My Dissertation Disaster
This is your chance to write in depth about what interests you,” said my lecturers as I prepared to embark upon my History dissertation.
Jack Morgan Jones
· 11 min read
The Enlightenment’s Cynical Critics
It is nearly impossible to find a human society that did not, at least at times, practice slavery and engage in barbarous acts of conquest and colonisation.
Katherine Kelaidis
· 5 min read
The Indispensable Study of Inescapable Matters
The subject of philosophy then is the study of indispensable ideas, regarding inescapable matters, at the root of man’s knowledge and values.
Ronald Pisaturo
· 7 min read