Politics Psychology The Water We Swim In: A Need to Look at Causes as Well as Effects. Posted on August 10, 20184 commentsbyStephen Messenger There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Christopher Hitchens’ Defense of the Enlightenment Posted on July 28, 2018July 28, 20183 commentsbyChristian Alejandro Gonzalez Christopher Hitchens is my favorite writer. His books probably made up around 80% of my high school reading diet. I devoured everything he published, from his autobiography to his studies… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics White Privilege: Is It a Helpful Concept? Posted on July 26, 201879 commentsbyIona Italia In this article, I will argue that the concept of “white privilege” is a counterproductive way of framing concerns about anti-brown and anti-black racism in the West in general, and… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Medine Zaouiche and the Politics of Provocation Posted on July 25, 2018One commentbyTerri Murray When French rapper Médine (real name Medine Zaouiche) decided to schedule a concert at the Bataclan theatre, where, in November 2015, Islamist jihadists massacred eighty-nine people, there was bound to… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics The Immigration Crisis: Who is to Blame? Posted on July 23, 2018July 23, 20186 commentsbyInas This was first published on inaswrites.wordpress.com. For a moment, just put yourself in this position: You’ve lived in the same village all your life—but you’ve always known that there’s a… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics The Decline of Traditional Conservatism and the Rise of the Postmodern Conservative. Posted on July 22, 20185 commentsbyMatt McManus In a July 4 article in the New York Times, conservative icon Roger Scruton lamented “What Trump Doesn’t Get About Conservatism.” Scruton argues that Trump largely bypasses intellectual arguments about conservatism… View Post
View Post 11 min Science & Tech Anthro-Technological Decision-Making: A Lesson from the Cold War Posted on July 19, 2018July 19, 2018No commentsbyKenneth Houston Humanity’s capacity for critical thinking is of paramount importance to our survival. This remains true, even in our hyper real information age, in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Not All Politics is Identity Politics Posted on June 14, 20188 commentsbyRalph Leonard We should get out of our lanes not stay in them. View Post
View Post 5 min Politics The Amorality of the Mob: Personal Reflections on the Evergreen Incident One Year On Posted on May 23, 2018No commentsbyIona Italia It’s the one-year anniversary of the day on which mild-mannered leftist Jewish professor Bret Weinstein was confronted in his classroom by a mob of angry students. By a strange twist… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Who’s Afraid of the “Intellectual Dark Web”? Posted on May 23, 2018May 23, 2018One commentbyCathy Young I have been meaning to comment on the sound and fury about Bari Weiss’ New York Times piece on the “Intellectual Dark Web,” an informal network of “heretics” and “renegades” who dissent… View Post
View Post 11 min Features Campus Speech Debate: The Nightmare of the Nineties is Alive Posted on May 14, 2018May 18, 20187 commentsbyOliver Traldi On Tuesday night I was lucky enough to attend a very engaging debate at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. Organized by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics The Democratic Fundamentalist: A Response to Nathan J. Robinson’s “Socialism as a Set of Principles” Posted on May 14, 2018May 14, 20184 commentsbyOliver Waters Three cheers for socialism! What’s not to like? View Post
View Post 19 min Features Understanding Human Nature Is the Best Way of Fixing Our Political Culture Posted on May 12, 2018May 12, 20183 commentsbyStephen Messenger Many factors contribute to political divisiveness and rancor. Some of them are natural and nearly inevitable aspects of fundamental human nature, but others are not. Of those that are not,… View Post
View Post 11 min Features The Philosophy of Nonviolence: The Lost Legacy of Martin Luther King Posted on May 5, 20183 commentsbyJohn Wood, Jr. The 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. has come and gone. MLK Day is behind us. Yet there is no reason for us to stop talking… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics Rhextortion: Misinterpretation by Proxy Posted on May 4, 2018May 4, 20183 commentsbyOliver Traldi The other day a friend linked me to a tweet from one journalist to another: “i think you want to be really careful,” it said, “about using language that sounds… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Sure, The Left Keeps Eating Itself — Who Can We Draft to Bite Back? Posted on April 28, 20189 commentsbyCory G. Collins The protest faced by Jordan Peterson at Queen’s University was one of the latest in a series of events that continue to stir the tempest in a teapot that embodies… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics Activism and the Conflict of Visions Posted on April 22, 2018April 22, 20185 commentsbyEdward Freeman I recently read Thomas Sowell’s classic work A Conflict of Visions. In it, he attempts to describe two different foundational worldviews, or visions, which are implicit in the thinking of… View Post
View Post 10 min Politics Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, and the Politicization of Science Posted on April 18, 2018April 21, 201826 commentsbyJohn Wood, Jr. The year long feud between cognitive neuroscientist Sam Harris and Editor-at-Large of Vox Ezra Klein is one that has pitted advocates for a group identity based approach to politics against… View Post