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September 2017

25 posts
  • Features

The Moral Contamination of Free Speech

  • September 29, 2017
  • 10 comments
  • Malhar Mali
We find ourselves living in an age where free speech is considered by many as a concept that only right-wingers care about. “You think free speech is important?” I’m asked.…
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  • 6 min
  • Politics

The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter

  • September 27, 2017
  • 7 comments
  • Razib Khan
Growing up as a child I didn’t know much about Communism except that it was bad. I knew that it was atheistic from what I had heard at the mosque……
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  • 18 min
  • Features

An Argument for a Liberal and Rational Approach to Transgender Rights and Inclusion

  • September 27, 2017
  • 40 comments
  • Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
The rights and social inclusion of trans people is a heated topic right now and, as usual in our present atmosphere, the most extreme views take center stage and completely…
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  • 16 min
  • Review

The Strange Death of Europe, Revisited

  • September 25, 2017
  • 7 comments
  • Robert Shaw
Areo has already published a review of Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe. However, since the book and its relevant themes are still being discussed, we thought a critical…
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  • 4 min
  • Culture & Media

Is Cordelia Fine’s Award from the Royal Society an Escalation of the Culture Wars?

  • September 23, 2017
  • 10 comments
  • Andrew Sabisky
One occasionally hears it said, generally by intelligent people who have turned their brains off for a moment, that science and politics don’t mix, and shouldn’t. This is of course…
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  • 5 min
  • Culture & Media

A Plea for the Humanities

  • September 21, 2017
  • 4 comments
  • Iona Italia
I’ve often heard people argue a moral case for the inclusion of gender theory, “critical race” theory and other forms of theory influenced by postmodern streams of thought on college…
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  • 6 min
  • Politics

How Terrorists Are Creating a New Language

  • September 21, 2017
  • One comment
  • Gurwinder Bhogal
I have been stalking members of the terrorist group Tawheed Network (formerly al-Muhajiroun). I have spied on them over the Internet, and heard much gossip about them in my neighborhood of Bury…
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  • 14 min
  • Culture & Media

Appropriating Confusion: A Reply to Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs

  • September 21, 2017
  • 2 comments
  • Kenan Malik
Earlier this year, Kenan Malik wrote an essay in the New York Times critical of the now-fashionable concept of “cultural appropriation.” The article caused some controversy. Briahna Joy Gray wrote…
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  • 11 min
  • Culture & Media

It’s Not Hard for Conservatives to Be on Campus Because They’re Stupid, It’s Hard Because You Are

  • September 20, 2017
  • 9 comments
  • Philippe Lemoine
Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative.” I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across…
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  • 5 min
  • Politics

Same-Sex Marriage: A Case for “Yes”

  • September 20, 2017
  • 2 comments
  • Russell Blackford
In its recent decision, the High Court of Australia cleared the way for a voluntary survey of the electorate to gauge community support for same-sex marriage. I don’t defend this…
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  • 13 min
  • Features
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What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know

  • September 17, 2017
  • 6 comments
  • Oliver Traldi
Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”…
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  • 7 min
  • Culture & Media

The Curious Case of Jordan Peterson

  • September 17, 2017
  • 27 comments
  • Reza Ziai
Few have reigned as steady and strong a champion of free speech as well as an opponent of political correctness as University of Toronto professor of psychology, Jordan Peterson. Over the…
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  • 4 min
  • Culture & Media

George Orwell Would Dislike You, Me, and Our Opinions

  • September 17, 2017
  • 5 comments
  • Ben Sixsmith
There is no historical figure — with the exception, perhaps, of Jesus Christ — whose legacy ideologues are keener to appropriate than that of Eric Blair, better known as George…
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  • 4 min
  • Science & Tech

Finger Size Does Matter… In Sports

  • September 13, 2017
  • One comment
  • Grant Tomkinson and Makailah Dyer
Examine your fingers. Which is longer? Is it the index finger (the finger you use to point with — technically the second digit, or 2D, counting the thumb), or the…
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  • 16 min
  • Politics

The Textual Roots of Islamic Violence

  • September 13, 2017
  • 3 comments
  • Andrew Gripp
We’re all familiar with the routine by now. A terrorist attack occurs. Hours later, the world learns the identity of the attacker (or, the identities of the attackers). Then comes…
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  • 6 min
  • Review

The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline

  • September 13, 2017
  • 2 comments
  • Robert Shaw
It is in the nature of things that they should rise and fall. The tide that laps against the coasts of the United States, from sea to shining sea, rises,…
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  • 4 min
  • Culture & Media

Thoughts on a Friend’s Suicide

  • September 10, 2017
  • 4 comments
  • Iona Italia
In the very last days of 2016, one of my favorite people in the world took his own life. It hit me very hard. Not only because of how I…
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  • 6 min
  • Culture & Media

In Defense of HBO’s Counterfactual ‘Confederate’

  • September 10, 2017
  • One comment
  • Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
In late July, HBO announced its forthcoming alternate history series Confederate, a show that will take place in a world in which the South successfully seceded from the Union and…
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