A Life of Pretending: Being Egyptian and Atheist
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
Anthon Jackson
· 24 min read
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Diversity and the Concert Hall
In theory, these sound like good-natured progressive policies. After all, who doesn’t like diversity?
Brad Ross
· 8 min read
The Scientific Importance of Free Speech
These are merely tools that help us to accomplish a far greater mission, which is to choose between rival narratives, in the vicious, no-holds-barred battle of ideas that we call “science”.
Adam Perkins
· 7 min read
Becoming a Man
“To be a man in most of the societies we have looked at, one must impregnate women, protect dependents from danger, and provision kith and kin.”
William Buckner
· 12 min read
Lost Down Social Constructionism's Epistemic Rabbit-Hole
Where they have raised both eyebrows and tempers among social constructionism’s growing number of critics.
Kåre Fog
· 11 min read
In Social Research Fields, Conservatives Are the Most Underrepresented Group
The lack of ideological diversity seems to be vastly more pronounced in social research fields than underrepresentation in terms of gender, sexuality, and race.
Musa al-Gharbi
· 4 min read
The Philosophical Case Against Scientism
Criticisms have some merit, but a stronger case against scientism can be made using the philosophical equivalent of the arid reasoning that scientists admire.
Spencer Hall
· 9 min read
Labour Power-Games Threaten 150 Years of British-Jewish Identity
Unlike other minority groups – which now self-organise at the smallest provocation – Jewish organisations try to keep calm and carry on.
Toby Guise
· 6 min read
Beyond All Warnings: The Radical Assault on Truth in the Law
Thus, the law exists simply to support the interests of the dominant group and is merely a collection of beliefs and prejudices that legitimise injustice in society.
Andrew Kelman
· 13 min read
Does Religion Impede Economic Development?
Protestantism was a movement of protest against the Catholic Church and the severing of ties with its centralised, hierarchical institutions.
Rumy Hasan
· 6 min read
"Basketball!" Deconstruction of a Hockey Game Taunt
Perhaps there is a better remedy: alternate dispute resolution. Have the foursome meet face-to-face with Smith-Pelly (with his consent) in the presence of others. Let the taunters explain what they meant.
Steven Lewis
· 14 min read
The Strange Truth About Alternative Facts
Now if a single moral judgment depends on a unit of analysis, then surely a political philosophy that imagines some sort of societal structure that maximizes some moral values (whatever they may be), must also depend on a unit of analysis.
Stuart Doyle
· 5 min read
"Which Side Are You On?"
This question was robotically intoned by a dozen or so students led by a young woman in a ‘Stay Woke’ jacket.
Andy Ngo
· 7 min read
Inquiry and Ideology in the Battle of Ideas
Rather scathingly, Frye notes that “in weak or insecure minds such a collision produces immediate panic, followed by elaborate defensive reactions.”
Brian Russell Graham
· 8 min read
The Privilege Paradox
Even this cursory glance reveals two important facts about the usage of the word ‘privilege’ today.
Samuel Biagetti
· 10 min read