Giving the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Its Star Turn on Video
The American intelligentsia seem to have slipped into a state of febrile lunacy in recent years.
Jonathan Kay
· 3 min read
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The Globalisation of Ethnonationalism
Art and ideas that had been dreamed up on one side of the world could reach and change people on the other.
Ben Sixsmith
· 7 min read
Denying the Neuroscience of Sex Differences
No one seems to have a problem accepting that, on average, male and female bodies differ in many, many ways. Why is it surprising or unacceptable that this is true for the part of our body that we call “brain”?
Larry Cahill
· 11 min read
A Professor Speaks Out: How 'New Left' Orthodoxy Is Failing a New Generation of History Students
The opposing position is that by engaging with other ideas, you make your own ideas stronger.
Kevin Vanzant
· 17 min read
The Right Side of History—A Review
The time may soon come when a more sophisticated neuroscience will render arguments of morality and free will effectively null.
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 11 min read
Time to Stop Using Suicide For Political Point-Scoring
The higher the suicide rate in the group you’re advocating for, the greater your moral clout.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
The Exhaustion of Hedgehog Morality
It is not a resurgence of “authoritarianism” that explains the current backlash against liberalism, as Kagan and others would have us believe.
Johan Wennström
· 8 min read
Albert Camus: Unfashionable Anti-Totalitarian
The Stranger portrays a solitary passionless man wandering through a world without pattern or purpose.
Craig DeLancey
· 10 min read
What Light Does ‘Three Identical Strangers’ Throw on the Nature/Nurture Debate?
It seems fitting that twins (1) come in two types, (2) are fascinating at two levels and (3) enhance understanding of human development in two ways.
Nancy L. Segal
· 10 min read
Banning Evil: In the Shadow of Christchurch, Quasi-Religious Myths Can Lead Us Astray
It is my contention that we must protect speech no matter how hateful it may seem.
Michael Shermer
· 11 min read
What's the State of Free Speech on Campus? That’s the Question We Asked Canadian Academics
The threat is embedded in innocuous seeming administrative protocols, which serve to obscure and diffuse the means of authority
Brayden Whitlock and Kyle Whitlock
· 10 min read
Venezuela and the Half-Truths of Noam Chomsky
Chomsky has spent his career attacking the crimes and incompetence of the US but excuses the same in its enemies.
Clifton Ross
· 13 min read
Federal Funding, the First Amendment, and Free Speech on Campus
Public colleges and universities function just like every other public institution—as an extension of the government itself.
Lauren Cooley
· 7 min read
The Fall of a Third-Rate Stalin
Dissidents who weren’t assassinated outright might end up in Mile 2 Prison. Only a handful of Mile 2 inmates actually faced lethal injection—the prison’s principal methods of execution were disease and malnutrition.
Zachary Snowdon Smith
· 14 min read
In Defense of New York City's Elite Public High Schools
Those of us who believe in the merit principle, and who have seen firsthand how these schools can improve the lives of the students
Jeffrey S. Flier
· 7 min read