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The Dangerous Myth of Nations
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In 2019, we are living in the age of the nation, or so it seems. We can see a very particular breed of populist nationalism almost everywhere we look—think of Erdoğan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil…
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Areo "The national identities that dominate our political discourse are collective fantasies: wind and smoke—or, in a memorable phrase coined by historian Benedict Anderson, “the shrunken imaginings of recent history.”" - 14h
Diversity Drop-Out
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Austin, Texas prides itself on being a very progressive, liberal city. One of the mayor’s crowning achievements has been putting together a taskforce on Institutional Racism and Systemic Inequities…
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Areo "Real change is not accomplished through diversity training and the pedantic social identity theorizing that has little practical application to raising educational standards in low-income schools" argues Jennifer Richmond () 21h
The Personal and the Political: Reconciling Right and Left Perspectives
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The Left proposes political solutions to essentially personal problems, while the Right proposes personal solutions to fundamentally political problems.
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Areo "The Left proposes political solutions to what are essentially personal problems, while the Right proposes personal solutions to fundamentally political problems" on the two sides' main failings. 38h
What DARE and Diversity Training Programs Have in Common
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If you were a high school student in the mid-1990s, as I was, your school may have been visited by representatives of DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), the educational program that sought to …
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Areo "Drug abuse is a real problem, and something must be done about it. But DARE’s alarmist approach backfired. Excessive talk of the problem actually made the problem worse" argues Gabriel Andrade ( ) 45h
Conservative Critiques of the Liberal Arts: A Reply to Ben Shapiro
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Conservatives have long been critical of universities and the liberal arts. The intellectual roots of this outlook can be traced to the founder of modern conservatism, Edmund Burke, who was famousl…
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Areo We recently published a discussion of conservative critiques of the liberal arts by Matthew McManus () 3d
A Conservative Critique of the Liberal Arts: A Response to Matthew McManus
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In a recent Areo article, Matt McManus provides a sketch of the history of conservative critiques of liberal arts education. My response to him is not as historically ambitious as his article, but …
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Areo Paul Barnes now takes issue with it: "The conservative case against modern liberal arts programs is fairly simple: they are irredeemably biased." 3d
Listening at the Great Awokening
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Colleges and universities across the English-speaking world are caught up in the enthusiasm of a Great Awokening. Its dogmas are structural violence, systemic racism, racial stress, white privilege…
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Areo "Listening to these views from multiple campuses helped me realize that what seems to be a local discourse responding to local issues is actually a local manifestation of an international social, political and ideological phenomenon" explains 8d
Could We Please Publish Less?
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“Writing journal articles is one of the least intellectually gratifying activities in academia. It’s better to write books,” a hotshot international relations professor recently told me after a res…
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Areo "We need to start writing less, in order to give each other time to write better and to actually read each other’s work. We need to publish less and stem the tide of articles no one will read" by 9d
Shocking, Hilarious, Poignant: Ricky Gervais’ After Life
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“Any plans for the weekend?” asks a sweet elderly receptionist in the fourth episode of Ricky Gervais’ new Netflix show, After Life. Gervais’ character, Tony, a writer struggling to cope with losin…
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Areo "The moral of After Life is that humor—no matter how grim or brutal—is ultimately about connecting with people." Allen Farrington () on ' approach to humour. 10d
No, Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
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I was recently surprised to read in Quillette an essay which argues that secular humanism is a religion. Although a number of thoughtful arguments for and against the similarity of secular ideologi…
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Areo "One of the primary objectives of atheist, secularist and humanist organizations for decades now has been convincing believers that we are not amoral nihilists & that meaning, purpose & morality are human, rather than religious, concepts" by 11d
Iconoclasm and the Erasing of History
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At 1:32am on the morning of 8 March 1966, a loud explosion was heard in the center of Dublin. When dawn came, visitors to O’Connell Street were greeted by the sight of a pile of rubble and the shee…
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Areo "Iconoclasm and the Erasing of History" by Alexander Adams 14d
The Beauvoir Bluff: What Gender Idealists Keep Getting Wrong about “The Second Sex”
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“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.”—Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex It is an increasing impossibility to read an essay on th…
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Areo "What Gender Idealists Keep Getting Wrong about "The Second Sex" by Aoife Assumpta Hart () 14d
Why Traditional Masculinity is Good for Academia
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Male sex (and manliness in particular) should be important criteria for admissions and hiring committees. Here’s why. Strange things have happened in academia. In the late 1960s, Derrida and Lévi-S…
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Areo "Masculinity has earned a reputation as a top villain in the two-column grievance package. One increasingly popular version of the masculinity is bad for everyone story is that it is bad for itself" by Samuel Veissiére. 15d
Agile and the Software Industry’s Ideology Problem
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In 2001, a group of technologists and software developers with unconventional theories about how software development ought to be managed met at Snowbird ski resort to try to commit some of those c…
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Areo "Agile and the Software Industry's Ideology Problem" by Cameron Hendy. 15d
The Party Switch ‘Myth’
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There are many odd features of the narrative based epistemology that governs party politics. One of them is the need for stories connecting the opposing party’s guilt and corruption, in the present…
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Areo "We conservatives have created our own mythology around this period of history. For the sake of historical clarity, this counter mythology needs to be dispelled." explains. 22d
Is and Ought: The Long Mile Between Douglas Murray and Brenton Tarrant
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The shockwave of horror emanating from the Christchurch massacre by Australian Brenton Tarrant has become a widening circle of anger directed toward those on the right of the aisle. The alleged dis…
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Areo "Digging through 's writings with a fine tooth comb in search of gotcha opinions shared by extremist killers is clearly less than helpful when any similarities are outweighed by such glaring differences" argues Wael Taji () 22d
The Tyranny of the Minority—and How to Prevent It
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When the internet first became part of mainstream public life, one of the great hopes it seemed to hold up was that of an expansion of democracy. From now on, the great media conglomerates would no…
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Areo "The Tyranny of the Minority and How to Prevent It" By James Kierstead 23d
Siding With The Audience
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A variety of recent high-profile media stories have demonstrated the extent to which news reporting has been altered by the power of social media. Traditional journalism is scarcely recognizable—so…
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Areo "Once any media organization turns a private individual into a public figure by catalyzing a harassment campaign against him, every other outlet can join in. This isn’t reckless disregard, it’s professionalism." by 23d
The Moral Case for Nihilism
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Since it became part of the zeitgeist of nineteenth-century Europe, nihilism has been blamed for virtually every atrocity committed by an unsound individual. This “philosophy of nothing” concludes …
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Areo First, we bring you, "The Moral Case for Nihilism" by Shane Fraser. "No nihilist is, has been, or will ever be, a mass murderer." 27d
Why Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction
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Critics and philosophers often argue that art estranges reality, thereby drawing attention to the way we organize our lives and perceive things. Reality, however, frequently outsmarts fiction becau…
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Areo "Why Reality Is Stranger Than Fiction" by Pavlo Shopin () "Fiction cannot do justice to the convoluted tapestry of reality, which confounds human imagination." 28d