Who Is the Real Threat to Autonomy and Flourishing Online?
It is misleading to characterize the web as a quasi-democracy.
Ray Scott Percival
· 11 min read
Activism
A collection of 238 posts
The Campaign of Lies Against Journalist Jesse Singal—And Why It Matters
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Science Goes Rogue
Science as a discipline is supposed to be based on empirical evidence.
Lawrence M. Krauss
· 8 min read
Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 22 min read
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read
The Problem With ‘Indigenizing the University’
Everyone, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, is free to explore their own spiritual beliefs, of course. But the university is not the place for such exercises.
Frances Widdowson
· 13 min read
Towards Practical Empowerment
In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy.
Erec Smith
· 10 min read
Accommodating Trans Athletes Without Rejecting the Reality of Human Biology
As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.
Quillette
· 11 min read
Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America
We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us.
Glenn C. Loury
· 20 min read
A (Failed) Campaign to Smear a University of Toronto Scholarship Student as a Bigot
The problem, he notes is that there is always going to be a required balance between our trusting inclination of accusations from an apparent victim, and everyone’s inviolable right of due process.
Michael Humeniuk
· 12 min read
Sexual Assault and the Taboo of Sound Advice
Yes, your car might be stolen even if you lock it and take the keys, but does that mean that no one should remind us to lock our cars and take our keys?
Steve Salerno
· 6 min read
‘More Weight’: An Academic’s Guide to Surviving Campus Witch Hunts
When you are being targeted by aggression, hostility, and hatred, a natural impulse is to want to fight back as hard as possible, and exact revenge.
Dorian S. Abbot
· 8 min read
First, Do No Harm: A New Model for Treating Trans-Identified Children
Individuals with a fragile ego structure also tend to be prone toward black-and-white thinking, which leads them to concrete rather than symbolic solutions.
Susan Evans and Marcus Evans
· 16 min read
BirthStrike: The Movement to End All Movements
Is BirthStrike a luxury belief?
William Costello and Freya India
· 8 min read
A Student Mob Took Over Bryn Mawr. The College Said Thank You
Anyone who sought to attend class, go to the dining hall, or even turn in schoolwork was denounced as a “scab,” and often faced acts of bullying.
Minnie Doe
· 10 min read