Politics Erdogan’s Turkey Doesn’t Belong in the EU or NATO Posted on December 30, 2016August 25, 20172 commentsbyRace Hochdorf It was around noon near the beginning of September when news of the tragedy began to circulate around the base in Afghanistan where I live. A Turkish military officer had… View Post
View Post 10 min Features Why I No Longer Identify as a Feminist Posted on December 29, 2016December 31, 2017172 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose I don’t remember ever not being a feminist. I toddled in marches of the 1970s with my mother. She became a second wave feminist in the 1960s after being denied… View Post
View Post 16 min Politics Scientology, The Simpsons, Cults, Christianity, and Islam Posted on December 28, 2016August 25, 20173 commentsbyMichael Sherlock In the Simpson’s episode entitled “The Joy of Sect,” Homer Simpson is eventually persuaded to join a UFO cult called the “Movementarians.”[1] The episode is a satirical exposition of cults and… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Why are Democrats Succumbing to Fantasy? Posted on December 24, 2016August 25, 2017No commentsbyRace Hochdorf A butterfly attempting to re-enter the cocoon. A baby trying to crawl back into the womb. A person trying to push toothpaste back into its tube. To view these things… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics Defining Which P.C. Culture We’re Bashing Posted on December 21, 2016September 9, 20176 commentsbyMalhar Mali When Megyn Kelly questioned Donald Trump in August 2015 about his history of degrading comments towards women, he replied with a misdirect that conflated legitimate concerns many individuals from the… View Post
View Post 14 min Features A Theory for Understanding the Regressive Left Posted on December 20, 2016September 29, 201715 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay I‘m going to start by introducing a term that sounds funny but isn’t. Ophobophobia. Ophobophobia is the irrational fear of being perceived a bigot (by self or others) by being deemed insufficiently… View Post
View Post 6 min Features Sarah Haider on Leaving Islam, Changing Liberals’ Minds, and Ex-Muslims of North America Posted on December 19, 2016September 11, 201718 commentsbyMalhar Mali Sarah Haider is the Director of Development for Ex-Muslims of North America. She has appeared on such shows as The Rubin Report, The David Pakman Show, and has given talks for the American Humanist… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics Exposing the Apologetics for Assad and Putin Posted on December 16, 2016August 25, 20176 commentsbyAhnaf Kalam Eva Bartlett, an ‘independent’ Canadian journalist, stole the hearts of the anti-war Left in her account of what was really happening in Syria in a now-viral video clip from a UN… View Post
View Post 9 min Culture & Media The Value of Arguing with Extremists: Building a Moderate Center Posted on December 14, 2016September 10, 20172 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose I am frequently told that there is no point in arguing with extreme ideologues because they are closed-minded and impervious to reason, and that I would do better to save… View Post
View Post 21 min Politics A Kingdom of Tears: Male Guardianship in Saudi Arabia Posted on December 13, 2016October 6, 2017One commentbyAnthony Avice Du Buisson One of the largest kingdoms in the Arabian Peninsula, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (abbreviated “KSA”) lays claim to many things; notably, Islam’s holiest sites — Mecca and Medina —… View Post
View Post 12 min Culture & Media Science & Tech Victimhood Culture’s Impact on Academic Education and Science Posted on December 12, 2016September 23, 20173 commentsbyLucas Bergkamp In modern society, victims of crimes and other forms of injustice have rightly received special attention. Under traditional criminal law, the victim did not play much of a role, except possibly… View Post
View Post 8 min Culture & Media Peter Boghossian on Critical Thinking, the Atheos App, and the Post-Modern Influence on Universities Posted on December 8, 2016February 23, 201813 commentsbyMalhar Mali “[Gender studies professors] are pumping out complete bullshit and indoctrinating a generation of students to believe total nonsense.” — Peter Boghossian. Peter Boghossian (@PeterBoghossian) is an Assistant Professor of philosophy… View Post
View Post 7 min Culture & Media Politics Social Justice: How Cults Use Language to Enslave Adherents Posted on December 7, 2016April 16, 20185 commentsbyRace Hochdorf Nearly three years ago I wrote an article titled “The Tyranny of Fundamentalist Language,” about how fringe religious groups are able to psychologically enslave adherents by creating a vocabulary that… View Post