Politics Check your Progressive Privilege: John Rawls vs Moral Relativism Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 20189 commentsbyJames A. Lindsay In 1971, liberal political philosopher John Rawls proposed in his influential book A Theory of Justice what is perhaps the most famous and compelling progressive thought experiment ever considered. He… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Understanding the U.S. Political Divide, One Word Cloud at a Time Posted on February 28, 2018February 28, 2018No commentsbyMichael Carolan America’s political divide goes by many names – rural-urban, blue-red, metro-non-metro and left-right. We are told it is bad and that it is only getting worse, thanks to phenomena like… View Post
View Post 2 min What We're Reading What We’re Reading #4 — February 26th, 2018 Posted on February 26, 2018July 16, 2018No commentsbyAreo Magazine Welcome to What We’re Reading, an exclusive fortnightly recap for our supporters at the Affiliate Publisher level and above. This is where we highlight articles, books, and blogs we’ve been reading,… View Post
View Post 18 min Features Enlightenment Contested Posted on February 25, 2018May 5, 201811 commentsbyBo Winegard and Benjamin Winegard Steven Pinker’s new book is drawing criticism. But is it justified? View Post
View Post 15 min Features Rejected By the Tribe: What Political Extremists Reveal About the Rest of Us Posted on February 22, 2018February 23, 20183 commentsbySamuel Biagetti Persecution, or the perception thereof, is a powerful social glue. View Post
View Post 3 min Science & Tech Suicide in the Time of Technology Posted on February 22, 2018No commentsbyJaspreet Gill Achilles’ death left a vacancy in the Greek ranks. Two contenders vied not only for the title of the greatest warrior but also to be the rightful heir to his… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Conservative Victimhood Posted on February 19, 2018February 19, 201812 commentsbyBradley Campbell Since Jason Manning and I first started writing about victimhood culture, we’ve been interested in the culture’s spread beyond the campus left where it began and where it appears in… View Post
View Post 5 min Science & Tech “Nothing Human Is Foreign to Me”: On the Nobility of Science and the Humanistic Instinct Posted on February 18, 20182 commentsbyCharleen Adams Only recently did I realize there was a word for the desire to understand and prevent disease, and, more generally, to help people flourish: humanism. View Post
View Post 2 min From Under Growing Up Online Posted on February 16, 2018February 17, 2018No commentsbyMalhar Mali In my first few weeks of high school in Australia, I remember a classmate messaging me something inflammatory on MSN Messenger (the equivalent of AOL for Americans). Though I don’t… View Post
View Post 7 min Politics Progress, Animal Welfare, and Our Moral Circle Posted on February 11, 20189 commentsbyLudwig Raal Given the abundance of bad news propping up our social media feeds and TV screens — a possible nuclear war between the U.S. and North Korea, the spread of far-right… 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 28 min Politics Reflections on the “Free Market” & Its Ideological Fruits Posted on February 9, 2018February 9, 201814 commentsbyRace Hochdorf “Looking thus into your eyes and seeing how each of you is a creature which has never in all time existed before and which shall never in all time exist… 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 2 min From Under The Bowels of Twitter Posted on February 5, 2018February 4, 2018One commentbyMalhar Mali A friend messaged me out of concern recently. “I think you have to be really careful,” he said, referencing this exploratory piece on the roots of genocide by Bradley Campbell,… View Post
View Post 6 min Culture & Media Letter from Sundance Posted on February 3, 2018No commentsbyJames D. Heather Sundance likes to see itself as Not Hollywood. The magnificent Rocky Mountains are a perfect backdrop for an annual alternative to Big Hollywood. Small independent movies like Little Miss Sunshine… View Post