Features Enlightenment Contested Posted on February 25, 2018May 5, 201811 commentsbyBo Winegard and Benjamin Winegard Steven Pinker’s new book is drawing criticism. But is it justified? View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media The Humanities Scholar as an Advertiser: A Reflection on Academic Language Posted on January 22, 2018January 29, 2018No commentsbyDavide Banis In his famous 1999 essay “Authority and American Usage,” writer David Foster Wallace meticulously examined the politics of the English language. Amid more obvious analyses of political correctness, White English and… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics The Case of Lindsay Shepherd and What It Teaches Us about How Learning Occurs Posted on November 24, 2017December 31, 20175 commentsbyIona Italia People with real power over someone else often use the excuse that they are defending “victims” to engage in the most shameless bullying. View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media A Plea for the Humanities Posted on September 21, 2017November 10, 20173 commentsbyIona Italia I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, “critical race” theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern streams of thought on college… View Post
View Post 20 min Culture & Media Science & Tech Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello Posted on January 19, 2017September 21, 2017One commentbyHelen Pluckrose “We believe that works of art are shaped by our evolved human nature, by culture and by individual experience. We therefore distinguish ourselves from cultural constructivists who effectively give exclusive… View Post