Battle of Ideas Culture & Media Features Will Declining Monogamy Lead to an Increase in Violence? Posted on October 10, 2018October 10, 201821 commentsbyJerry Barnett The Invention of Gender Inequality Ever since sex was first “invented” a little more than a billion years ago, it’s been the source of endless problems. For sure, it has… View Post
View Post 10 min Politics Psychology The Water We Swim In: A Need to Look at Causes as Well as Effects. Posted on August 10, 20184 commentsbyStephen Messenger There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the… View Post
View Post 10 min Culture & Media The Task Facing Masculinity. Posted on July 6, 2018July 7, 201812 commentsbyConor Barnes “I think everyone would agree the world would be a better place if we had less testosterone.” My friend shared this quote with me in bemusement after he heard it… View Post
View Post 6 min Science & Tech The Evolutionary Roots of Identity Politics Posted on August 24, 2017September 8, 20174 commentsbyReza Ziai “We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping…” — James Douglas Morrison It seems these days whether you are an Islamist in Dhaka, an Antifa extremist in Boston, a… View Post
View Post 23 min Science & Tech Assessing Female Mate Preferences: Answers to Ten Common Criticisms of Evolutionary Psychology Posted on August 9, 2017September 8, 20174 commentsbyDavid P. Schmitt A few years ago, I was giving an invited presentation to an audience of mostly sociologists and family studies professors on the topic of evolution and human reproductive strategies. I… View Post
View Post 8 min Review 15 Years Later, Why Do We Still Believe in the Blank Slate? Posted on August 2, 2017January 5, 201816 commentsbyMalhar Mali On Twitter, I once saw a cultural anthropologist refer to Steven Pinker’s toenails as “magical” when accosting an evolutionary psychologist who had angered him. Some time later, on another scroll… View Post
View Post 21 min Science & Tech Sex and Gender Are Dials (Not Switches) Posted on August 1, 2017September 8, 20179 commentsbyDavid P. Schmitt It has become more and more common for young people around the world to describe themselves not as a “man” or a “woman,” but as “something else.” One term for… View Post
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 10 min Features What You’re Attracted to Isn’t “Socially Constructed” Posted on April 10, 2017December 10, 201726 commentsbyReza Ziai In recent years, many individuals on the political left have been earnestly conveying the message that what a person is attracted to (i.e. mate preference) is entirely constructed by the… View Post
View Post 12 min Features Gad Saad on Hysteria and “Collective Munchausen” around Donald Trump, Speaking Out as an Academic, and Evolutionary Psychology 101 Posted on January 23, 2017September 9, 201721 commentsbyMalhar Mali “As somebody who escaped Lebanon and actually hid under desks to avoid death squads, I don’t take well to these idiots from Wellesley College who say, ‘I’m scared to go and buy… 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