Politics In Defense of Distinctions, or What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About the IDW Posted on October 23, 20187 commentsbyChristian Alejandro Gonzalez In a piece for Vox, Ezra Klein attempts to explain the rise of what he calls “YouTube’s reactionary right.” Klein’s definition of reactionary YouTubers encompasses a wide range of figures:… View Post
View Post 9 min Politics Social Justice Versus Natural Justice Posted on October 11, 20182 commentsbyTristan J. Rogers This essay is adapted from Tristan Rogers’ journal article, “Justice as Lawfulness” (forthcoming in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association). In a memorable scene from the history of philosophy,… View Post
View Post 9 min Politics The Cowardice of Hollywood Self-Denunciations Posted on August 29, 2018One commentbyMatthew Alves You are not doing this for the sake of art; you are doing this because you want to feel relevant again. Well, guess what, there is an entire world out… View Post
View Post 12 min Politics No, Liberal Lefties are Not Right-Wing Posted on August 23, 2018August 25, 201855 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose Left-wing liberals who are opposed to the identity politics developments on the left increasingly find ourselves accused of being right wing, referred to as “right wing” and scornfully urged to… 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 17 min Politics Sympathology: Being Aggrieved on Behalf of Those Who Are Not Posted on May 18, 2018May 19, 20184 commentsbyStephen Clouse Pathologized Sympathy There is a group of people who frequently appear in the headlines, identified by a wide range of terms. Instead of listing all of them here, it’s best… View Post
View Post 6 min Features Because It Feels Good: Social Justice and the Politics of Shame Posted on April 3, 2018April 3, 20188 commentsbyRichard Pallardy Let’s just say it: Watching people be destroyed is delicious. View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Minorities Don’t Always Want Your Help Being Heard Posted on March 26, 2018March 28, 20185 commentsbyAutumn Berend This article was originally offered to Huffington Post Living as a transgender woman, I deal with vitriol and love from people from all walks of life. Being transgender is no… View Post
View Post 9 min Politics Humanitarianism, Collectivism, and the Model of Impossible Responsibility Posted on February 10, 20186 commentsbyOliver Traldi One class of claim made by social justice activists and academics goes like this: Because person A benefits from the history of some unjust system, structure, or social construction S,… View Post
View Post 17 min Features No, Postmodernism is Not Dead (and Other Misconceptions) Posted on February 7, 2018April 6, 201817 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose I first began talking seriously about postmodernism in an epistemological sense seven years ago. I was studying it at university at the same time as reading and writing about skepticism… 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 “‘social justice warriors’ are the true defenders of free speech and open debate.” His argument for… 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