Culture & Media Skepticism, Salon, and Gender Studies Posted on May 31, 2017September 9, 20178 commentsbyMalhar Mali James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian’s “Conceptual Penis” article in Cogent has split the skeptic community into two broadly opposing factions. Generally, one claims that the hoax does not prove… View Post
View Post 8 min Features My Apostasy from the Church of Critical Theory Posted on May 30, 2017September 9, 201717 commentsbyReza Ziai In 1997 I earned a Masters degree in psychology from Duquesne University, a Catholic university in Pittsburgh, PA. At the time, Duquesne was one of only a few schools in… View Post
View Post 12 min Politics No, You’re Not More Likely to Be Killed by a Right-Wing Extremist than an Islamic Terrorist Posted on May 28, 2017September 9, 2017118 commentsbyDamion Daniels On 22nd May, 2017, a 22 year old jihadist named Salman Ramadan Abedi wandered into the Manchester Arena during a concert populated primarily by young teens and their parents, and… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics After Manchester: Our Conversation About Islam Must Pave the Way for Politicians Posted on May 25, 2017September 9, 20175 commentsbyJonathan Gleadell The Twitter outpourings on the evening of the Manchester attack included those sickened by people making jokes and infuriated by the associations made with a religious doctrine before all the… View Post
View Post 13 min Features On Human Motivation, Ideological Bias, and Groupthink in Academia — An Interview with Clay Routledge Posted on May 23, 2017December 7, 20175 commentsbyMalhar Mali Clay Routledge is interested in how and why humans search for meaning and motivation. A professor of psychology at North Dakota State with over 90 academic articles to his name… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media Politics Sokal Affair 2.0: Penis Envy: Addressing Its Critics Posted on May 21, 2017September 9, 201727 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct” written by Jamie Lindsay and Peter Boyle is a peer-reviewed paper published by the online journal Cogent Social Science on 19th May, 2017.… View Post
View Post 9 min Culture & Media Politics This Is Your Brain on Ideology Posted on May 19, 2017August 25, 201711 commentsbyBarry Purcell PATHOLOGY: What is “ideology” and why is it bad? Like “postmodernism” or “feminism,” an ideology can have as many meanings as there are people using the term. In this article,… View Post
View Post 6 min Review Mumbo Jumbo Has Conquered the World Posted on May 18, 2017September 9, 20178 commentsbyMalhar Mali Post-truth, post-fact, post-reality. You don’t need a lengthy introduction on the state of the world. You just need to take a look around: A man who wavers between imbecile and… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media The Paranoid Style of the Illiberal Campus Posted on May 16, 2017September 9, 20177 commentsbyPhil Magness In 1964 historian Richard Hofstadter wrote an essay for Harper’s Magazine entitled “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” His thesis was a simple one – that American politics was “an… View Post
View Post 13 min Politics Where Now for New Atheists? Posted on May 15, 2017September 9, 201755 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose “New Atheism” is dead. This is what we are told by many people both positive and hostile to the New Atheist approach and to a large extent they are right.… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media All About the Muzhik: The Post-Modern Zeitgeist is Ironically Pre-Socratic Posted on May 12, 2017September 9, 20172 commentsbyReilly Smethurst If music is the zeitgeist, then ours is a funny society. In ancient Greece, mousikē did not revolve around the human-animal (anthropos). Our capitalist democracies, by contrast, treat music as… View Post
Features The Marxist Devil and Free Speech on Campus Posted on May 9, 2017May 1, 2018byPhil Magness7 minute read
View Post 14 min Features Postmodernists Don’t Understand Evolutionary Psychology Posted on May 8, 2017December 30, 201723 commentsbyReza Ziai “Racist Wilson, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide.” — A member from the International Committee Against Racism (prior to dumping a pitcher of water on E.O. Wilson’s head),… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics Snapshots from Turkey Posted on May 6, 2017September 9, 2017No commentsbyRace Hochdorf When the plane touches down on the flight line, the Emirates stewardess approaches me and motions with her hands that I need to buckle my seatbelt. She motions with her… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Alt-Truth, Goodness, and Liberty Posted on May 4, 2017September 9, 20172 commentsbyCallum Golding “Man is a rational animal — so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so… View Post
View Post 7 min Features Who Teaches Students That Words Are Violence? Posted on May 3, 2017November 23, 201730 commentsbyMalhar Mali Last week, Ulrich Baer, a vice-provost and a professor of English at New York University, made an astonishing case against free speech in the New York Times. Baer framed the debate as… View Post
View Post 11 min Politics 7 Steps to Defeating Islamism Posted on May 2, 2017September 14, 20175 commentsbyJacob Mchangama The steady flow of jihadist terrorist attacks striking European cities highlight the monumental failure of liberal democracies in opposing the great totalitarian menace of our time: Islamism. Yet, the deadly… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Shut Up for Free Speech Posted on May 1, 2017September 9, 201711 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay Freedom of speech, it is said, is our most essential freedom because it reinforces and safeguards all other rights. People will go to great lengths, including dying, to defend this… View Post