Upstream Approaches to Health and Wellness
Original map made by John Snow in 1854. Cholera cases are highlighted in black. 2nd Ed by John Snow. John Snow is often justly referred to as the father of…
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Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s Presidency
After Trump was elected, sales of George Orwell’s 1984 rocketed. In January 2017, around the time Trump was inaugurated, 1984 was the no. 1 best-selling book on Amazon and it…
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Malpractice in Academic Medicine
Malpractice in scientific research was, for most of British history, rarely discussed and almost never attended to. The process of peer review, whereby other researchers in a relevant field adjudicate…
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Conservative Cancel Culture: Paul E. Gottfried et al’s “The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism”
It’s been said that when Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the Soviet military elite had been so hollowed out by Stalin’s purges that the Red Army had trouble mounting…
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Schools Don’t Have to Adopt Critical Education Theory to be Inclusive or Just
To judge by the headlines, critical race and gender theories have taken over primary and secondary education. School boards are renaming schools, district administrators are dismantling white supremacy culture in…
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Media Bubbles and the Polarization of American Society
A common worldview is one of the most important things that hold a society together. In 2020, Americans have been pulled apart by incompatible perspectives more than ever before. Opinions…
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Mandatory “Anti-Oppression” Training at a Canadian Legal Charity
I am a first-year law student at Queen’s University, Canada. In September I volunteered with Pro-Bono Students Canada (PBSC), a volunteer organization that “envisions a society with accessible legal systems,…
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Julian Assange and the Cowardice of the Modern Media
Glenn Greenwald, one of the journalists who broke the story about widespread NSA surveillance, recently resigned from the Intercept, the media outlet he co-founded, citing the publication’s increasing ideological homogeneity…
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Latinos Aren’t Always Woke
According to some segments of American society, there is a distinct racial grouping known as Latinos. It has become conventional wisdom that 52 million of our fellow Americans share a…
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The Dangers of Woke Harm-Based Morality
The first time I came face to face with the new woke morality was in the principal’s office of my son’s school. My then 14-year-old had been suspended for three…
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From Psychotherapist to Psychoactivist: How Therapy is Becoming Derailed
This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been tampered with and the contents have become contaminated. Mainstream culture has been captured…
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The Digital Deplatforming of a Gender-Critical Feminist
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from Medium, saying that my account had been suspended because it was in violation of their rules on hate speech. I’m…
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The Disease of Inequality that Joe Biden Is Unlikely to Cure
Joe Biden has clinched the White House—something that a large number of Americans find worthy of celebration. But while there is something cathartic about the thought of putting the Trump…
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Toxic Infantility and Its Social Consequences
“There is deep infantilism in the culture,” laments actor and comedian Stephen Fry. Indeed, the ways in which opinions are formed, framed and expressed today often reflect a troubling lack…
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A Plea for a Humanist Antiracism
If the astounding fact that Donald Trump received a greater share of non-white people’s votes in 2020 than any Republican president since 1960 reveals anything at all, it’s that this…
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The Uniqueness of Mammals
In 2017, I presented a paper at the Florida Academy of Sciences entitled “The Importance of Being a Mammal.” Its thesis was threefold. First, a number of behaviours appear to…
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Jurgen Habermas on the Democratic Project of Modernity
Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived intersubjectively distinguishes itself from the arbitrary freedom of the isolated individual. No one is free until…
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Virtue Racism
Now that the Biden/Harris ticket has prevailed in the 2020 US presidential election, one can expect a boost in social justice, especially as it pertains to race. What’s more, one…
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