Culture & Media Science & Tech Would You Agree to Sex with a Total Stranger? Posted on June 30, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyDavid P. Schmitt Choosing to have sex with a total stranger is not something everyone would do. It probably takes a certain type of person. Quite a bit of evidence suggests, at least… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics Australia’s Census Result Heralds a Secular Shift Posted on June 29, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbyHugh Harris The surge in “No religion” in the 2016 Census heralds a more secular Australia. With a rise from 22.3% in 2011 to 30.1% in 2016, “No Religion” has overtaken Catholicism to… View Post
View Post 8 min Science & Tech War is Not a Cultural Construct — Dispelling the Myth of the Noble Savage, (Again) Posted on June 28, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyReza Ziai Like last year, the holy month of Ramadan saw carnage erupt in many parts of the world. While the actual violence rages on, the debate over why this continues to… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Review A Feminist Reviews ‘The Red Pill’ Posted on June 26, 2017September 8, 201736 commentsbyIona Italia I’ve just watched Cassie Jaye’s documentary The Red Pill and I think you should, too. A superb interviewer who knows how to draw out her subjects’ deepest beliefs, Jaye takes… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Politics No, Tucker Carlson — You’re Wrong Posted on June 26, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyMalhar Mali You see it very often now. Some imbecilic professor or student says or writes something beyond the bounds of sanity and the conservative media machine jumps into action. Campus Reform, The… View Post
View Post 7 min Science & Tech Reflecting on a World Where Robots Control Your Thoughts on Social Media Posted on June 25, 2017September 12, 2017No commentsbyPeter Allebone We have found ourselves living in a befuddling time. We are told it is an age of human progress and peace. Yet also a time of Trump, suicide bombings, Russian… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media Politics Why Bruce Lee’s Legacy Should Inspire Us to Revolutionize — and Modernize — American Political Discourse Posted on June 24, 2017December 23, 2017No commentsbyJohn Kirbow I am in a particularly creative mood, so I’ll write a bit about something I discussed in a recent public debate in NYC on Political Correctness: Martial arts has greatly… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics Why Islamists Target Music Venues Posted on June 22, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbySandy Buglass Music is perhaps the most potent medium in all the arts, eliciting profound emotional experiences through its surging melodies and pulsating rhythms. The sheer ubiquity and variety of music found… View Post
View Post 9 min Politics Are Open Borders Desirable and Viable? Posted on June 21, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyPhilip Carl Salzman “Open borders” means that people may enter and leave at will with no control or obstruction. Open borders as a policy option for international borders is presently advocated by many… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics What One Senate Hearing Taught Me About Discussing Islam in America Posted on June 20, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyZouhair Mazouz “Mrs. Hirsi Ali, do you still think Islam is a death cult?” shouted a man wearing what looked like a prayer cap. I am not an American citizen, but I… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics There’s No Justification for Finsbury Park Terrorism Posted on June 20, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbyStephen Knight When I first launched my Taking The Myth podcast as a companion piece to the regular interviews, the idea was to bring listeners a regular dose of skeptical discussion without… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Politics Your Identity is Not an Argument Posted on June 19, 2017September 8, 201711 commentsbyJonathan Gleadell Speaking as a Secular Humanist, I Don’t Really Care Who You’re Speaking As Starting a sentence with this new qualification to an opinion, during everything from a formal debate to… View Post
View Post 12 min Features Racism Does Not Equal Prejudice + Power Posted on June 16, 2017September 8, 201715 commentsbySteven Zanuttini You may have encountered people in universities or on social media endeavoring to redefine the meaning of the word “racism” to include terms such as “power” or “institutional power” as… View Post
View Post 12 min Culture & Media Science & Tech Slouching Toward Palitana: The Case for Ending Animal Slaughter Posted on June 15, 2017October 6, 201710 commentsbyAndrew Gripp In 2014, roughly 200 Jain monks engaged in a hunger strike. Their goal: to have the holy city of Palitana, located in the Indian state of Gujarat, declared a “meat-free… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Denial and Consequences: The True Fallout from the Manchester Attack Posted on June 14, 2017September 9, 20173 commentsbyWill TG Miller While each one of the three terrorist attacks to have taken place over the last three months in the UK is a profound call of concern, the case of the… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics WMD: Words of Mass Destruction Posted on June 13, 2017September 9, 2017No commentsbyChristopher Kiely An intense dialogue is taking place. A 140-character limit, FB post, meme riddled mess of propaganda in the purest Bernay’s sense. Information overload. YouTubers, rogue professors, selfie-taking, tweeting leaders and… View Post
View Post 9 min Features The Progressive Case for Free Speech Posted on June 12, 2017October 6, 20175 commentsbyJacob Mchangama It’s a paradox: The ability to communicate, spread and access information freely across borders and barriers has never been more readily available to people around the globe. Yet the belief… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Politics A Straight White Male Mansplains “Mansplaining” Posted on June 8, 2017September 9, 20177 commentsbyAR Devine Over the past decade or so the term “mansplaining” has entered our everyday vernacular. I don’t think it is conducive to constructive social and political discourse to coin a term… View Post