Free Speech Leftists Still Exist
The perception, understandably, follows that the right is in favor of free expression, and the left has become wholly illiberal.
Alexander Blum
· 7 min read
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Collision with Reality — What Depth Psychology Can Tell Us About Victimhood Culture
Personal or collective attitudes that create an invitation to victimhood and infirmity can alter what we expect for ourselves.
Lisa Marchiano
· 11 min read
The Impasse of Modernism and Postmodernism
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
Patrick Lee Miller
· 22 min read
The Demise of Public Language
You are sick to death with the unrelenting abuse of language in public life.
Brian Russell Graham
· 6 min read
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
A 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
The Pursuit of Injustice — Adventures in 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
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 Is Splintering 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
The Noble Savage Speaks
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
Can Comedians Be 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
Rage, 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