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
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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
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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
Social Justice Is Popular — But the Rule of Law Is Sacrosanct
But law and social justice do not always go hand in hand—at least, not in the short term.
Jonathan Kay
· 8 min read
Post-Postmodernism on the Left
Postmodernism has never been as unpopular as it is today, especially on the right of the political spectrum.
Matt McManus
· 10 min read
Censorship and Stereotypes — China's Hip-Hop Generation
The rising popularity of a genre known for its politically subversive content and heavy use of profanity clearly unnerved some of the more staid.
Thomas Clements
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The Threat of Authoritarian Liberalism
Democracies, on average, are becoming more authoritarian.
Clay R. Fuller
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Race, Gender, and Trump — Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
Clinton’s poor performance with women was not a result of race being especially salient in this cycle.
Musa al-Gharbi
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I Want to Hold Seminars on Empire — Interview with Nigel Biggar
Somewhat similarly, at Oxford, professor Nigel Biggar was targeted immediately after his project “Ethics and Empire” was launched.
Sumantra Maitra
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Prison House of Political Language
Plans have now been announced to once again adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four to the screen but this time with “Trump hanging over it."
Neema Parvini
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The Trouble with Technocracy
Elon Musk offers a good example of how technocrats don’t always get it right, and why trusting them with the world’s progress is risky.
Lyle Broom
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Bryan Caplan's Case Against Education — A Review
But the virtue of The Case Against Education is that Caplan synthesizes many lines of research that approach the question with different methods.
Noam Stein
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RedState Firings and the Decline of Viewpoint Diversity on the Right
It later emerged that the RedState firings were part of a larger effort by the site’s owner Salem Media Group to clamp down on criticism of Trump.
Patrick Frey
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Racism and the Underdetermination of Evidence
The Starbucks incident parallels one of the historical cruces of the scientific revolution.
James Collin and Anthony Bolos
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Tired Old Myths — The New Republic Slanders Jung
The ignoble tradition of Jung-bashing has had a steady following by lazy minds ever since, most recently evidenced in Jeet Heer’s article, Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths.
Joseph Lee and Lisa Marchiano with Deborah Stewart
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