A Life of Pretending: Being Egyptian and Atheist
A host of experiences answering the same question across Egypt had me braced for a look of pained disappointment.
Anthon Jackson
· 24 min read
Long Read
A collection of 190 posts
The Problem of Credulity
We could come up with any number of examples. But is there any more to be said, other than that it is a disposition to be irrational?
Piers Benn
· 12 min read
Escaping Conformity
Conformity, broadly defined, is a tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology.
Jacob Little
· 14 min read
Diversity: A Managerial Ideology
What would the government consider evidence of discrimination? How much activity counted as a good faith effort toward equal opportunity?
Darel E. Paul
· 10 min read
The One State Delusion
Instead of becoming a poster boy for globalism, Barcelona has been the setting for a powerful Catalan nationalist movement demanding outright independence.
Leon Hadar
· 23 min read
Has Liberalism Failed?
Every regime hits peaks and troughs. What is the evidence that this present crisis is terminal failure, rather than another periodic setback?
Patrick Lee Miller
· 24 min read
Walking the Tightrope Between Chaos and Order—An Interview with Jordan B Peterson
So when you talk about doing the right thing for yourself, your family, and society, there is a hierarchy there? Yourself comes first?
Andrew Kelman
· 30 min read
Privilege Checking the Privilege Checkers
If we hope to maintain our privileges – and work towards securing them for others – we must be aware of the bad ideas that threaten them.
Tristan Flock
· 11 min read
Premodernism of the Future
What is most needed in our present crisis is a philosophy that can move through the impasse between modernism and postmodernism.
Patrick Lee Miller
· 27 min read
The Impasse Between Modernism and Postmodernism
The battlefield is indeed the university. How, then, does he characterize these two opponents?
Patrick Lee Miller
· 22 min read