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Violence Against Women: A Crisis in Australia?

Australia is among the least violent countries in the world. There are things we should do to make women safer, but we should not succumb to a crisis narrative.

Russell Blackford

31 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

Equity Concerns Lead to a Mass-Firing of Museum Volunteers

The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.

Robert Cherry

15 Nov 2021 · 7 min read

The Status Game: Male, Grandiose, Humiliated

The logic of the status game dictates that humiliation must be uniquely catastrophic.

Will Storr

13 Sep 2021 · 15 min read

Socialization Isn't Responsible for Greater Male Violence

The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.

Alex Mackiel

26 Aug 2019 · 7 min read

Take It from Someone Who Has Suffered Real Physical Abuse: Words Aren't Violence

The ordinary challenges of life now are being reinvented as trauma, and words are conflated with violence.

Alexandra Berryhill

7 Dec 2018 · 10 min read

Does Religion Cause Violence?

Make no mistake, we should be wary of the effects that beliefs might have.

Brian Boutwell and Jonny Anomaly

22 Jan 2017 · 10 min read