Culture & Media The Gospel of Jon Snow: Christ Allegory in ‘Game of Thrones’ Posted on July 31, 2017September 8, 20174 commentsbyAndrew Rainaldi — Spoilers for Game of Thrones up to Season 7, Episode 3 — When a writer is trying to convey that a character is some kind of hero or redeemer, that… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Nadia Murad and Yazidi Sex Slavery Under ISIS Posted on July 30, 2017September 8, 20172 commentsbyAnthony Avice Du Buisson Stories of those forcefully taken from their homes by ISIS militants and sold into slavery are haunting reminders of the tyranny that Daesh (ISIS) has wrought on so many during its seizure… View Post
View Post 3 min Science & Tech What Science Has to Say About Gender Identity Posted on July 29, 2017September 8, 201710 commentsbyGregory Hickok A few days ago, President Trump announced that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military. This follows a previous Trump reversal of guidelines put in place by President… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media Why Your Friend’s Political Opinions Shouldn’t Make You Mad Posted on July 28, 2017October 10, 20177 commentsbyBen Sixsmith Logging into Facebook, I see Corbyn memes jostling for space with videos warning of the Islamization of Europe; petitions in support of transgender rights alongside disdainful cartoons about âSJWs.” I have… View Post
View Post 11 min Culture & Media Hot Take Culture in the Age of Social Media: Emmanuel Macron, Racism, and Civilization Posted on July 27, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyO.T. Ford Emmanuel Macron has just become one of the most powerful individuals in the world, at the age of 39 and more or less out of nowhere, and has five or… View Post
View Post 6 min Review The Strange Death of Europe Posted on July 25, 2017September 8, 20173 commentsbyJonathan Gleadell “A calm, dispassionate and long overdue look at the facts that too many elected officials have either not yet seen or conspired to overlook.” Well-intentioned but woefully misguided politicians, Angela… View Post
View Post 10 min Culture & Media Truth Doesn’t Depend on “Power” Posted on July 24, 2017October 9, 20176 commentsbyLucas Lynch In one debate after another on any issue with regards to religion, race, gender, or fairness, there is one maxim of faith youâll hear repeated over and over again with… View Post
View Post 3 min Politics Why I Admire Richard Dawkins Posted on July 23, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyIona Italia Yesterday I learned that Richard Dawkins was de-platformed from a speaking event at liberal radio station KPFA in the town of Berkeley, where he was scheduled to talk about his… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Stop the Generation War Posted on July 23, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyGeoffrey Hicking Now that the election has come and gone, we can see the large swell in the youth vote. Much of it went to Corbyn. Once seen as puffed up lazy… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics Against Secular Blasphemy in Australia: The Liberal Case for Repealing 18C Posted on July 22, 2017September 8, 2017One commentbyMarko Pehcevski “People do have the right to be bigots, you know.” The public response to the above statement, made by Attorney General George Brandis three years ago in his proposition that… View Post
View Post 17 min Features Evergreen College, Free Speech, and the Meaning of Social Justice Posted on July 20, 2017October 10, 20178 commentsbyA. Jay Adler âIdentity politicsâ rises on all sides. Identity politics are commonly attributed to the political left, where they are a response to the original, historical identity politics â male, and, in… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media What We Forgot To Remember, Part 3: The Slow Crush Posted on July 19, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyWill TG Miller We can focus better on tasks that are urgent or pressing than those that seem distant and far away. Even the laziest of students seem somehow able to drag themselves… View Post
View Post 10 min Features Taking out a Patent on Culture Posted on July 17, 2017June 6, 20183 commentsbyFrank Furedi Calls to destroy a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of a black victim of a lynch mob hanging in the Whitney Museum illustrates that for many, even artistic… View Post
View Post 3 min Science & Tech The Fate of Conversation in an Age of Mechanical Chatter Posted on July 15, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyInderjeet Mani Conversation, of the natural, face-to-face variety evolved by our ancestors, is said to be an endangered species. The growth of texting, especially among the young, has already lowered the frequency… View Post
View Post 4 min Politics Debate Ideas, Not People Posted on July 15, 2017September 8, 20175 commentsbyIona Italia Thereâs a particular rhetorical maneuver which is often used to discredit specific arguments which is especially popular on Twitter. Itâs an approach which effectively shuts down dialogue on important but… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics Eternal Trump Supporters: Gold Medal Winners in Mental Gymnastics Posted on July 14, 2017September 8, 2017No commentsbyChris Rampolla Donald Trump’s brand of populism carries with it a deeply ingrained aversion to unpleasant information; the President will sound the war cry FAKE NEWS across social media as a casual… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics The Cultural Relativism of the Christian Majority Posted on July 13, 2017September 8, 20176 commentsbyO.T. Ford A faith which still celebrates its lonely, martyred forebears two thousand years later is fertile soil for persecution complexes, and they have indeed developed. But a persecution complex is a little… View Post
View Post 7 min Features My Stealthy Freedom: The Hijab in Iran and in the West Posted on July 12, 2017February 4, 20182 commentsbyMalhar Mali In 1979, after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, more than a hundred thousand woman took to the streets to protest the compulsory veiling that was to be enforced under the… View Post