A collection of 108 posts
The key to reducing violence amongst any demographic is in ascertaining the specific attributes of violent individuals.
It took a long time for Chagnon to acclimatize to the deep interior of the Amazon Rainforest and its unique threats.
When it comes to matters around sexuality a set of presumptions have been adopted which are proving quite as dogmatic as the notions they replaced.
If upsetting students or staff or the public is a reason for banning speech, all such discussion is at an end.
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.
The last lesson of Gelernter’s piece is that while we shouldn’t judge someone’s arguments by their credentials alone, neither should we give unwarranted credence to those who have impressive credentials, particularly when they pronounce on a field in which they lack expertise.
The trend towards post-familialism, a society in which the family and marriage are no longer central to society, will reshape our politics, economy, and society in the decades ahead.
As chilling effects go, “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk going to jail” is not all that different from “I would speak out, but I don’t want to risk losing my friends and my livelihood.”
As the world’s most powerful fascist regime, one would expect China to encounter great difficulties spreading its influence on liberal Australian university campuses, the student bodies of which are hypersensitive to right-wing teaching or teachers.
A few days before the Fourth of July, British comic John Oliver used the pulpit of his US infotainment show, Last Week Tonight, to deliver a lengthy monologue about the depredations of Amazon.com. His specific complaint was that Amazon doesn’t treat its employees very well. According to Oliver,
In a vein similar to Orwell’s lexicology of apologetics, criminological theory may help inform an understanding of how speech is used in defense of the indefensible at another level of analysis—that of rhetorical strategies.
But that’s the thing about freedom of speech: you tend not to notice it being curtailed until it’s your speech that’s being restricted.
The Antifa thugs who attacked Quillette editor and photojournalist Andy Ngo in Portland yesterday did not quite manage to crack his skull.
Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress.
The primarily political differences, therefore, emerge over how best to realize freedom, and of course, what freedom itself means.