Battle of Ideas Culture & Media Publish or Perish: Is Milton’s Paradise Lost on Academia? Posted on October 9, 2018No commentsbySteve Fuller Steve Fuller will be speaking at the Battle of Ideas on “Publish or Perish: The Crisis of Research Today” on Sunday, 14th October. In the original modern defence of free… View Post
View Post 47 min Features Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship Posted on October 2, 2018October 30, 2018487 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship,… View Post
View Post 11 min Review Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage: A Review Posted on July 30, 2018July 30, 20183 commentsbyStephen Messenger In the fable describing a frog slowly boiled alive, the premise is that a frog suddenly dropped into boiling water will immediately leap out, but a frog placed in tepid… View Post
View Post 24 min Features A Principled Defense of the University Posted on March 23, 20184 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose The modern university is undoubtedly among humanityâs crowning achievements, and, more than many other advances made over the last five centuries, it is in danger. Now, more than any time… View Post
View Post 25 min Features The Reality of the Rise of an Intolerant and Radical Left on Campus Posted on March 17, 2018March 24, 201813 commentsbyLee Jussim The darkest part is not the rise of radicalism, but the passive acquiescence of the vast majority of faculty and students. 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 6 min Politics The Matthew Sears Cower: Getting it Wrong on Free Speech and Social Justice Posted on January 17, 2018January 17, 20186 commentsbyOliver Traldi Last week in the Washington Post Canadian classics professor Matthew A. Sears argued that â‘social justice warriors’ are the true defenders of free speech and open debate.â His argument for… View Post
View Post 13 min Features Postmodernism Isn’t Playing Around Anymore Posted on January 8, 2018January 8, 201819 commentsbyOliver Traldi Recently, classical liberals’ understanding of the phenomenon of postmodernism has come under heavy fire, with Jordan Peterson in particular facing criticism for coining the phrase âpostmodern neo-Marxist.â Though it’s fairly… View Post
View Post 4 min Culture & Media Why Universities Have Shifted to the Political Left in the past 20 Years Posted on December 7, 201710 commentsbyPhil Magness University faculty ranks have long been thought of as bastions of the political left, and with good reason: sizable majorities of professors self-identify as modern liberal or left-leaning in their… View Post
View Post 23 min Features When Intersectionality Silences Women Posted on November 7, 2017December 31, 20172 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose This is a continuation of Helen Pluckrose’s exploration of censorship on campus. Read the first piece, which details the campus environment and provides personal testimony from women academics, here. ***… View Post
View Post 23 min Features The State of the Campus and Women’s Self-Censorship Posted on October 24, 2017December 31, 201711 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose The academy is under attack. Or so it seems. News stories seem to come in almost daily reporting academic witch hunts, disinvitations, demands for no-platforming, words that must not be… View Post
View Post 13 min Culture & Media For You, Postmodern Sympathizer Posted on October 15, 2017October 17, 20172 commentsbyLawrence Belluci This is a continuation of Lawrence Belluci’s reflections on postmodernism, which he first wrote about here. In this article he addresses a criticism that defenders of postmodernist and post-structuralist thought… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Free Speech Wars on Campus and the Apolitical Student Posted on October 11, 20176 commentsbyJoanna Williams Anyone who regularly spends time at a university canât fail to notice the gulf between the popular image of students and the quieter, far more boring reality. In the past… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter Posted on September 27, 2017September 28, 20176 commentsbyRazib Khan Growing up as a child I didnât know much about Communism except that it was bad. I knew that it was atheistic from what I had heard at the mosque…… View Post
View Post 5 min Culture & Media A Plea for the Humanities Posted on September 21, 2017November 10, 20173 commentsbyIona Italia Iâve 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 11 min Culture & Media It’s Not Hard for Conservatives to Be on Campus Because They’re Stupid, It’s Hard Because You Are Posted on September 20, 2017September 20, 20179 commentsbyPhilippe Lemoine Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called âWhy it is hard to be a campus conservative.” I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across… View Post
View Post 8 min Culture & Media My Experience in a Postmodern PhD Program Posted on September 9, 2017September 10, 201720 commentsbyLawrence Belluci About four years ago, I applied for a PhD program in a top university in a Brazilian city that will remain unnamed. Having spent all my life in the Brazilian educational… 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