Why Trans Kids Need Gatekeepers
Gatekeeping is not about saying “yes” or “no” straight-up.
Libby DownUnder
· 12 min read
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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 Their Values — 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
Hashtags and Terror Narratives in Toronto
Any place can seem ‘no go’ to those who’ve never gone.
Jonathan Kay
· 10 min read
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 — Restauranteurs 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 Gentler 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