Corruption: Greasing the Wheels of the World
The fish rots from the head, but the tail has rotting rights too. Comrade GAIchik had such rights—and rights they were/are, though not codified.
John Lloyd
· 15 min read
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Like It Or Not, Keira Bell Has Opened Up a Real Conversation About Gender Dysphoria
In the debate about transitioning children who experience gender dysphoria, Ms. Bell’s case represents an important turning point.
Quillette
· 9 min read
Wide As the Sky and Deep As the Ocean
The film and the recording revealed a frail man, his mobility and speech compromised by the crippling sclerosis that had probably hastened his decision to leave the music business.
David Breuer
· 15 min read
The Question of Affirmative Action: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Education was not equal in 1930 for blacks and whites, nor in 1950, nor in 1970 for that matter.
Michael Sandel and Glenn Loury
· 19 min read
On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose
The universities are also where rigorous research, science, and valuable knowledge production continues to happen, and it is the universities we will need to push back at this and self-correct.
Jason D. Hill
· 8 min read
Journalism's Ivory Towers
In a recent essay entitled “The Resentment That Never Sleeps,” New York Times columnist Thomas B. Edsall explains how a lowering of social status among non-college-educated white Americans has increased that demographic’s anxiety and helped fuel the populism that made possible Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency. Reporters
Kevin Mims
· 10 min read
The Troubled Maker: Transgressive Art, Public Shame, and Mike Tyson
Tyson embodies the moral ambiguity of boxing’s rich tapestry: brutal and beautiful; entertaining and repellent; dishonorable and inspiring.
Ric Royer
· 11 min read
Cuba’s Doomed War on Independent Art
There were seven police officers, all dressed as civilians. They arrived at the improvised Havana music studio on the morning of Monday, September 28th, kicked down the door and found their target—Maykel Castillo Pérez, a well-known Cuban rapper and human rights activist who was in the process of recording
Jorge C. Carrasco
· 4 min read
The Problem with Kinship Care
It is not only the state’s consent decree that is pushing it to reduce foster care numbers significantly
Naomi Schaefer Riley
· 9 min read
The End of the World as We Know It?
The scholars at Our World in Data add that this also holds for other natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcano activity, wildfire, and landslides.
Glenn T. Stanton
· 15 min read
What Is #DisruptTexts?
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
Lona Manning
· 9 min read
Against Cultural Protectionism
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
Leo Nicolletto
· 13 min read
A Defense of Offensive Jokes
Some jokes, even in the joking relationship, are beyond the pale, and there should be some margin left for pushback against jokes that do actually go over the line. But offensive humour, in private relationships, has a useful purpose and should not be thrown out entirely.
Bill Peel
· 11 min read
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review
Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense.
Charlotte Allen
· 20 min read
Black and White in the Classroom
I also needed to say that they had it all wrong, that the white privilege they were arguing about was actually opportunity and nothing else.
Lola Jean Benjamin
· 4 min read