On the Demise of Our Public Language
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Brian Russell Graham
· 6 min read
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Cakeshop Conflicts: Let Them Eat Rights
What we are witnessing is not really a conflict of rights, but a conflict of conceptions of the good.
Brian K. Miller
· 9 min read
In Defence of Jordan B. Peterson
Peterson is celebrated in the news media as a champion of free speech and liberal, democratic values, while in fact promoting a far-right worldview.
Uri Harris
· 15 min read
Pursuit of Injustice: Further Adventures Under Title IX
So, how did the Dear Colleague Letter turn universities into star chambers? It lowered the burden of proof for a guilty finding in sex cases, and stripped the accused of due process.
Nicholas Wolfinger
· 7 min read
The Problems of “Privilege”: Lessons from the French Revolution
It has almost been forgotten that the concept of privilege, and critiques of privilege as the source of society’s ills, are nothing new in history.
Blake Smith
· 9 min read
Identitarianism and the Splintering of Democracy
Now, let’s consider for a moment the practical consequences of this theory for our representative democracy.
Max Diamond
· 5 min read
Jung and the Trumpian Shadow
We do not live in the best of all possible worlds. There are monsters inside each of us. Those monsters must be made coherent, and given their place, or they will consume us.
Alexander Blum
· 9 min read
A 'Noble Savage' Speaks Up
There is this fantasy in the West, the fantasy of the noble savage. It is an old fancy and goes all the way back to that puritan, proto-communist, Thomas More.
Nushin Arbabzadah
· 5 min read
Smearing Free Thought In Silicon Valley
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Gideon Scopes
· 8 min read
Why Can Comedians Be So Irritating?
Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Ben Sixsmith
· 5 min read
The Rage Against Selective Outrage
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.
Spencer Case
· 7 min read
Is Sex a Dirty Word?
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Craig Bielert and David C Geary
· 21 min read
The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
Mark Lilla has written a book asserting that liberals should be more committed democrats.
Oliver Traldi
· 15 min read
An Argument Against Open Borders and Liberal Hubris
Progressives should remember that civilisation is not a science laboratory.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Fake News is Old News
News and information thus become weaponized and aimed against the very institutions and values that free speech was supposed to protect.
Jacob Mchangama
· 11 min read