The Growth Dilemma
The prospect of stagnating incomes amidst ruinous pension and other costs comprise a toxic cocktail with potentially profound de-stabilizing effects.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
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'The Report' Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA's Interrogation Methods
As unpleasant as this kind of harsh treatment was, defenders of EITs maintained that it fell short of torture.
Michael J. Totten
· 10 min read
Iran’s Fawning Western Apologists
Many Western leftists repeated the Ayatollahs’ talking points.
Kaveh Shahrooz
· 5 min read
Black or White, It's the Same Old Anti-Semitic Pathology
Unlike the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooter or the 2019 Poway synagogue shooter, the suspects in these attacks weren’t white supremacists.
Ralph Leonard
· 7 min read
Ricky Gervais, Man of the People
If courage had a face, it would be a slightly overweight, pasty British multi-millionaire drinking a pint.
Bridget Phetasy
· 3 min read
Build Your Own Intellectual Oasis
Live your own life, worry about your own problems, and let others worry about theirs.
Bill Frezza
· 7 min read
The Ranks of Gender Detransitioners Are Growing. We Need to Understand Why
Until recently, those seeking transition generally were subject to extensive assessment by mental health practitioners.
Lisa Marchiano
· 8 min read
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Scandinavia: Can The New "Parental Team" Replace Marriage?
A 2012 statistical report profiled a cohort of 34,000 Swedish heterosexual couples who had their first baby in 2000, and followed their progress longitudinally until 2010.
Mikael Jalving
· 8 min read
Reasons to be Hopeful
The best cure for progress shame is a rationally optimistic attitude with which we can then push civilisation further forward.
Tony Morley
· 6 min read
Are Contemporary Feminists Too Agreeable?
Second Wave feminists didn’t care very much about being nice to those outside of their movement.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
Politics and Rationality: On the Uses and Limits of Science
No one’s politics is based on deliberative rationality. And no one’s politics is based on science, of course.
Crispin Sartwell
· 7 min read
Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
Adam Ellwanger
· 13 min read
Sex Differences in Cognition
There is also a wide range of literature regarding sex differences in interest, which is also complicated, and which may explain a larger portion of the sex discrepancy in STEM careers.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 8 min read
The Apologist's Apologist—A Reply to Robert Wright
Blumenthal’s politics are morally repellent and intellectually dishonest and should be exposed as such.
Matt Johnson
· 8 min read