The Time I Was Triggered.
Nothing is beyond scrutiny, everything should be up for discussion. Every right we enjoy comes from challenging ideas and fighting for what we believe in. As a liberal, this is…
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The Benefits of Solitude
Loneliness—the sense of isolation and alienation from society—has always been a part of the human condition, much discussed by philosophers and theologians. In the past few years, however, loneliness has…
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The Jordan Peterson Film: Unethical, Too Nuanced and Cancelled
Nuanced films don’t sell in theatres, a colleague told me a week ago. He was explaining why a theatre in Toronto has declined to screen my upcoming film, The Rise…
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The Need for Transparency in Drug Information
One of the few things Americans are united on is the need to curb the high cost of prescription drugs. Novartis recently made headlines, after a $2 million drug was…
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From Satire to Reality: Monty Python Predicts Woke Culture
Forty years ago, the iconic British comedy group Monty Python released their third feature film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The movie follows a young Jewish man who happens to…
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Being Human Is A Quest: A Review of Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Quichotte (pronounced in the French way, key-SHOT) is a work of postmodern picaresque with a metafictional narrative…
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Letter From the Editors: On Retracting the Essays of John Glynn
Dear Areo readers. As many of you will now know, Areo was one of several outlets to have recently published pieces by a person calling himself “John Glynn.” It seems…
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The Marriage between Maths and Reality: An Interview with Graham Farmelo
Dr Graham Farmelo is an award-winning biographer and science writer. Based in London, he is a Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a regular visitor at the Institute for Advanced…
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Who Speaks for Muslims in Colorado?
At this year’s Western Conservative Summit in Denver, John Andrews, former Colorado senator and founder of the Centennial Institute, reignited the discussion of Islamism in Muslim-American communities. Many local publications,…
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Teaching Uncertainty: Cultivating a Heterodox Classroom and Life
To quote someone a lot smarter than me, “I know that I know nothing.” This is the Socratic paradox which states that the only thing I’m certain of is my…
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From Syria to Venezuela: Mystifying Left-Wing Support of Dictators.
If you’ve worked with left-wing activists, you have probably met many caring and intelligent people who genuinely believe in democratic values. Until it comes to foreign policy, when many leftists…
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Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power
Karl Marx and Michel Foucault are two of the most cited critical theorists in the world today, simultaneously revered or reviled, depending on who you talk to. Their work has…
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LGBT Rights in America: Incremental Progress, Ongoing Problems
To a significant number of Americans, the quest for gay rights is either over or mostly over. On 28 June of this year, for example, the Atlantic ran an article by James…
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Saving Socialist Realist Art in San Francisco
(A Self-Portrait by the Artist) In 2018, San Francisco removed the 124-year-old Early Days sculpture from Civic Center Plaza because it showed a Plains Indian sitting at the feet…
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Annaka Harris’s “Conscious” and the Trap of Dualism
Annaka Harris’s recent book Conscious presents a concise and well-written exploration of consciousness, with an emphasis on the mystery of subjective experience. Harris approaches this difficult topic from a secular,…
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Is Misogyny Holding Western Women Back?
The term misogyny comes from the Greek word μισογυνισμός that translates as hatred of women. Very few would deny that gendered stereotypes and prejudices exist in the western world, but…
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London’s Knife Crime Is Not the Fault of the Black Community
Surely no culture punches further above its weight than Jamaica. No country of its size—few countries of any size—could claim to have left such a profound mark on the modern…
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Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom
Last month, I was called to jury duty. Here in the US, many people, instead of seeing jury service as a quintessential civic duty, regard the obligation with impatience, exasperation…
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