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23 posts
Psychotherapy: Gaps in Our Knowledge
Our understanding of psychotherapy is as fragmented and distorted as the proverbial blind men’s understanding of the elephant. For one thing, we lack reliable data about how many people practise…
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Putin and the Authoritarian Tradition
Imagine explaining the global reputations of Elizabeth II and Vladimir Putin to someone from ancient Rome. These two leaders both came to power in declining empires. Under one, the dissolution…
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Ukraine: Why a No-Fly Zone is a No Go
I am a firm supporter of freedom for Ukraine. I believe that Putin is a dictator who threatens not just Russia’s neighbours and its own people but the western world.…
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The Best and Worst of Times for the Japanese Anime Industry
Few who follow developments in the world of anime doubt that Japan’s animation industry is a global juggernaut—an enduring, profitable symbol of soft power—as popular beyond its borders as within.…
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Forecasting the Year Ahead: Lessons from Foreign Intelligence
Many political and economic forecasters use the beginning of a new calendar year to make predictions about what will happen during the Earth’s next full cycle around the sun. Yet…
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“Borderlines: The Edges of U.S. Capitalism, Immigration, and Democracy” by Daniel Melo. Book Review.
In Borderlines, Daniel Melo exposes the unjust, inhumane and downright absurd position of immigrants in the United States, and offers an explanation for it. The arguments are not entirely novel,…
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Against the New Irish Hate Speech Bill
To the Irish Justice Ministry George Orwell once wrote that, “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”…
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Why Free Speech Should Include Holocaust Denial
Most people will readily affirm that the Holocaust is a historical fact. The Holocaust is the name most people give to the Nazis’ 1941–1945 campaign to systematically exterminate European Jewry—which…
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“The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future” by Charlie Kirk
Trumpism has always been more interesting as a phenomenon than as an ideology. This is in part because, as even some of his supporters have conceded, Trump himself is a…
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Anti-Humanism and the Battle Against Ethical Universalism
If humanism can be defined as a normative point of departure that prioritizes human concerns, interests and flourishing and focuses on the faculties that separate human beings from other animals,…
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What Conservatism Is Not
In 2014, Sir Roger Scruton famously proclaimed that “conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”…
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Writing Wrongs: Why Academics Write So Badly and How That Hurts Them
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio Exploratory Hypotheses on Discursive Non-Transparency in Research and Critical Praxis Situated Within Hegemonic, Institutional, Socio-Ideational Processes, With Implications. Academic writing is notorious for being turgid, tedious and…
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A Letter from Helen and Iona
Dear Readers, This is a very stressful and, indeed, frightening time. In addition to the fear that we or someone we love could become horribly ill or even die and…
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Why A V-Shaped Economic Recovery is Unlikely
In the past month, during which the coronavirus started washing up on our shores, the U.S. has changed in tremendous and abrupt ways. Unemployment offices have been besieged with new filings in recent weeks,…
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On Good Governance: The Federalist Papers, Diversity and Liberalism
Chris Hayes recently tweeted, “The least sexy part of socialism is effective, efficient bureaucratic administration but the project lives or dies based on it.” My purpose here is to utilize…
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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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“Cultural Marxism” is a Myth. The Threat Comes From Elsewhere.
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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