Sociology's Stagnation
The curricula of sociology departments are so deeply flawed that they will need to be revised from the ground up.
Brian Boutwell
· 11 min read
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Infantilizing Students Post-Election
These educators apparently either don’t know or don’t care about ridicule from working adults, many of whom are alumni of the very institutions in question.
Matthew Stewart
· 5 min read
Dealing with the Reality That Not Everyone Can Succeed
Two traits — general intelligence and self-control — are perhaps our best individual level predictors of living a successful life.
Brian Boutwell
· 6 min read
Diversity for the Sake of Democracy
Diversity is the celebration of individuality and nonconformity, and democracy is most precious when it allows three hundred million individuals to reach a compromise out of love for their country.
Carrie Pritt
· 4 min read
Free Speech and Terrorism – Whatever you do, don’t mention Islam!
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion; free (critical) speech about religion has the effect of freeing people from religion.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 8 min read
No, the Syrian Civil War is Not Like Jews fleeing Nazi Persecution
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.
Sumantra Maitra
· 6 min read
Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters"
And when policy is not up for debate and when conversation is taken off the table.
Claire Lehmann
· 6 min read
Liberalism’s Great Challenge: How Can We Critique Ideas while Protecting People?
The words are usually associated with Eastern or New Age spirituality, and they sound as bizarre on the tongue of a science-minded atheist as an Arab Bible-believer.
Valerie Tarico
· 9 min read
On the Reality of Race and the Abhorrence of Racism
To our knowledge, we have yet to see a similar example applied specifically to race.
Bo Winegard, Brian Boutwell
· 10 min read
The Article About Trump Nobody Will Publish
What would happen should Trump get elected? On the Right, President Trump would force the GOP to completely reorganize—and fast.
James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian
· 7 min read
Thiel vs Gawker: Why a Defensive Media is the Real Threat to Free Speech
Gawker Media has tormented both powerful and not so powerful people for some time now.
Claire Lehmann
· 5 min read
Free Speech and Islam — In Defense of Sam Harris
If you discount Islamic doctrine as the motivation for domestic violence and intolerance of sexual minorities in the Muslim world, you’re left with at least one implicitly bigoted assumption.
Jeffrey Tayler
· 12 min read
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
There will always be things that we haven’t figured out yet, and even some that we get wrong.” But science is not just about conclusions, he argues, which are occasionally (or even frequently) incorrect.
Brian D Earp
· 8 min read
Original Sin: The Sexual Motivation of Religious Extremists
This misguided reticence is a product of archaic cultural mores that make sex a thing of shame for women, but one of pride for men.
Janet L Factor
· 15 min read
Herd Mentality
Herd mentality – in all its forms, both ancient and modern – is probably the thing that frightens me most in the world.
Emma C Williams
· 5 min read