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Rationality: A Conversation with Steven Pinker

On Thursdays, we often feature an interview from our Two for Tea podcast. In this week’s featured conversation, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to psychologist Steven Pinker about his most recent book:…

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18 min

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Enlightenment Contested

Steven Pinker’s new book is drawing criticism. But is it justified?

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12 min

Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment by Matt Johnson (2023). A review. There has been a gaping void in our political and…

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9 min

Liberalism and Our Sexual Rights and Freedoms

In an increasingly global knowledge economy, the middle and working classes of developed countries are feeling the pinch. This economic stress has inspired a resurgence of extremist political movements. Once…

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10 min

Politics

Did Covid Really Provoke an Anti-Asian Hate Epidemic in Canada?

A few months into the COVID pandemic last year, Canada’s mainstream media published scores of articles claiming that Canadians of East and Southeast Asian ancestry were being subjected to racial…

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7 min

Politics

Liberal Rights, Progressive Wrongs

In contemporary discourse, the concepts of liberalism and progressivism are routinely conflated, especially in American politics. But, as historically understood, they are distinct, and in many ways at odds with…

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11 min

The Lessons of Evolution: A Review of “A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century” by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein

I was worried that Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein’s new book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, would be a shallow self-help…

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4 min

Good News Is No News

How many upbeat articles have you come across since the COVID-19 pandemic emerged? Not many, probably. While the pandemic hasn’t exactly been a cheerful time, consider what should have been…

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12 min

Politics

Asking Utopians How: An Alternative Strategy for Defending Freedom of Speech

I used to be woke a good fifteen years before it was called that. You could call it proto-woke, but I called myself a post-Marxist, sometimes a postmodernist. Being a…

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12 min

Politics

What My Soviet Life Has Taught Me About Censorship and Why It Makes Us Dumb

A few years into my American life, I took a class on western thought. The only philosopher on the syllabus familiar to me was Karl Marx, and he wasn’t why…

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9 min

The Trick of Evocative Science Writing: “Books Do Furnish a Life” by Richard Dawkins

In his previous essay collection, Science in the Soul, Richard Dawkins ponders why a scientist has never received the Nobel Prize in Literature—the only possible exception, Henri Bergson, was “more…

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6 min

What Fascism Is and What It Is Not

No word has been more brazenly and irresponsibly weaponized and diluted by the social justice movement than fascism. Fascism has been discussed in countless op-eds, traded as an insult in…

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10 min

In Defence of Argument: “Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars” by Piers Benn

In the closing pages of Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars, Piers Benn writes: I was motivated to write this book because there was something that mattered to me, that…

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5 min

Philosophy

A Modest Defence of Postmodernism

An intellectual war in which postmodernism is both weaponized and assailed seems to have been raging for a long time. But postmodernism’s proponents and demonizers are seldom willing to engage…

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5 min

Why Progressives Downplay Progress

“Intellectuals hate progress,” writes Steven Pinker in Enlightenment Now. “Intellectuals who call themselves ‘progressive’ really hate progress.” There are plenty of reasons to think Pinker is right. Many progressives seem…

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6 min

Culture & Media

Lesbians, Witches and Nukes: “Other Girls Like Me” by Stephanie Davies

Stephanie Davies’ recent memoir Other Girls Like Me is a moving, deeply personal account of one of the great protest movements against nuclear weapons. Davies was a warrior in her…

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steven pinker

Rationality: A Conversation with Steven Pinker

Enlightenment Contested

Christopher Hitchens, the Conservative Marxist

Liberalism and Our Sexual Rights and Freedoms

Did Covid Really Provoke an Anti-Asian Hate Epidemic in Canada?

Liberal Rights, Progressive Wrongs

The Lessons of Evolution: A Review of “A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century” by Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein

Good News Is No News

Asking Utopians How: An Alternative Strategy for Defending Freedom of Speech

What My Soviet Life Has Taught Me About Censorship and Why It Makes Us Dumb

The Trick of Evocative Science Writing: “Books Do Furnish a Life” by Richard Dawkins

What Fascism Is and What It Is Not

In Defence of Argument: “Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars” by Piers Benn

A Modest Defence of Postmodernism

Why Progressives Downplay Progress

Lesbians, Witches and Nukes: “Other Girls Like Me” by Stephanie Davies

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