Battle of Ideas Narcissism and the New Politics of Identity Posted on October 30, 2018One commentbyJacob Reynolds Our political discourse is increasingly dominated by psychological vocabulary. From safe spaces to triggering, public life is made sense of through the application of ideas that originated within psychological thought… View Post
View Post 10 min 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 10 min Psychology Depression is Horrific but Suicide is not the Answer Posted on July 24, 20186 commentsbyTom Clements This is not an essay I wanted to write, but, after the recent tragic loss of the author and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain to suicide, I now feel compelled to… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media Lipstick, Pussy Power and Toxic Femininity Posted on July 10, 201816 commentsbyIona Italia A harmful myth has been circulating recently which I feel called upon to counteract. Some have called it “toxic femininity.” I’ve seen it expressed, to varying degrees, in Jordan Peterson’s… View Post
View Post 8 min Psychology No, You Don’t Have a Disorder. You Have Feelings Posted on July 8, 20188 commentsbyLisa Marchiano The London Times recently carried a story about an avalanche of self-harm among British school children. According to the article, “school nurses are dealing with panic attacks, self-cutting, overdoses and… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics The Victim Mentality will Imprison You — and then Destroy You Posted on May 12, 20188 commentsbyElio Martino Recently, Candace Owens, host of the popular YouTube channel Red Pill Black, and communications director for the conservative think-tank Turning Point USA, made headlines when she was endorsed by Kanye… View Post
View Post 35 min Features Why Utopian Communities Fail Posted on March 8, 2018March 10, 201812 commentsbyEwan Morrison Once again we see a resurgence of interest in intentional communities and in Utopian experiments in living communally. Even Time Magazine is advocating such ways of living as a solution… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media Into the Maelstrom: How the Hyperconnected Age is Tearing Us Apart Posted on August 16, 2017May 17, 20183 commentsbyJamie Stantonian Writing during the twilight age of literature, maverick media theorist Marshall McLuhan devoted his life to the understanding of the global mass media and its effect on human behavior. He… View Post
View Post 16 min 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 20 min Review Against Empathy? What Paul Bloom Missed Posted on March 20, 2017October 6, 20172 commentsbyChris Rampolla When I was five or six years old, my father somehow managed to get our two-wheel-drive rental car stuck in the middle of a remote Canadian beach. I’m actually not… View Post