Helen Pluckrose

7 min

Academic Freedom or Social Justice: What Kind of University is Portland State?

On October 2, 2018, the Wall Street Journal broke a story that detailed an unprecedented audit of certain sectors of academic research, specifically those we—its authors—called “grievance studies.” In that…

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19 min

Culture & Media

A Response to Portland State’s Vanguard’s Anonymous Letter.

Posted on November 12, 2018November 12, 2018
27 comments
byHelen Pluckrose

Prof. Boghossian and co-authors’ reception of the letter. On November 9th, Vanguard, Portland State University’s student newspaper ran a very strange article written not, it claims, by students but by…

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5 min

Battle of Ideas

“Cultural Marxism” is a Myth. The Threat Comes From Elsewhere.

Posted on October 30, 2018October 30, 2018
21 comments
byHelen Pluckrose

This is a lightly edited transcript of Helen Pluckrose’s opening statement on the panel “Cultural Marxism: Threat or Myth” at the Battle of Ideas. “Cultural Marxism” in common usage is…

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47 min

Features

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

Posted on October 2, 2018October 30, 2018
571 comments
byJames A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckrose

This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship,…

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14 min

Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements

Posted on September 25, 2018September 25, 2018
41 comments
byHelen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay

It is nearly beyond dispute that the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave liberal feminism, and Gay Pride were liberal projects, both in the broad philosophical sense and in the narrower meaning…

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8 min

Politics

“Not All Men” is Not a Fallacy. It is Humanism.

Posted on September 16, 2018September 16, 2018
25 comments
byHelen Pluckrose

It is customary within feminist discourse to treat the response #NotAllMen as something akin to a logical fallacy, which, once identified, can then be simply dismissed as an error of…

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12 min

Politics

No, Liberal Lefties are Not Right-Wing

Posted on August 23, 2018August 25, 2018
61 comments
byHelen 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…

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6 min

Politics

The Liberal Spectrum: Cultural Libertarianism to “Call Out” Culture

The term “liberal” is wide-ranging and potentially confusing. This is unsurprising considering that the label ‘liberal’ is culturally specific to the extent where it is often understood to refer to…

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4 min

Letter from the Editor

Where Now for Areo?

Yesterday, Areo said “goodbye” to its creator, Malhar Mali. In his farewell, Malhar said, “I started Areo because I was frustrated; I was disappointed at what many outlets deemed to…

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22 min

Features

The Pendulum Need Not Swing: Why Gender Roles are Not the Answer to Blank Slatism

It is commonplace to describe prevailing attitudes about social issues, including those regarding gender equality and gender roles, as being like a pendulum which swings one way and then another…

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16 min

Politics

Skepticism is Necessary in our Post-Truth Age. Postmodernism is Not

We at Areo recently published a passionate defense of postmodernism by Kenneth Houston, Professor of International Relations at Webster. We did so, despite having published several essays strongly critical of…

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10 min

Features

Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard

There is a troubling misunderstanding of the principle of freedom of speech gaining momentum right now. It fundamentally misunderstands two central concepts of the principle — individual freedom and the…

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24 min

Features

A Principled Defense of the University

The modern university is undoubtedly among humanity’s crowning achievements, and, more than many other advances made over the last five centuries, it is in danger. Now, more than any time…

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5 min

Politics

An Appeal to Male Feminists

Dear feminist men: you are promoting sexism against me, and I do not appreciate it.

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12 min

Politics

This Is Why We Need to Talk About Diversity

We simply cannot address any issues productively if we cannot talk about them.

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17 min

Features

No, Postmodernism is Not Dead (and Other Misconceptions)

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…

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14 min

Features

The Problem with Truth and Reason in a Post-Truth Society

Posted on December 8, 2017January 5, 2018
9 comments
byHelen Pluckrose

It is particularly difficult to change our minds.

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Helen Pluckrose

A Response to Portland State’s Vanguard’s Anonymous Letter.

“Cultural Marxism” is a Myth. The Threat Comes From Elsewhere.

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship

Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements

“Not All Men” is Not a Fallacy. It is Humanism.

The Liberal Spectrum: Cultural Libertarianism to “Call Out” Culture

Where Now for Areo?

Skepticism is Necessary in our Post-Truth Age. Postmodernism is Not

Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard

A Principled Defense of the University

An Appeal to Male Feminists

This Is Why We Need to Talk About Diversity

The Problem with Truth and Reason in a Post-Truth Society

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