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The Need for Transparency in Drug Information
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One of the few things Americans are united on is the need to curb the high cost of prescription drugs. Novartis recently made headlines, after a $2 million drug was approved to treat a rare heredit…
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Areo "The Need for Transparency in Drug Information" by Lynn McClelland. 17h
Enforcing Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent: America’s Neglected Free Speech Crisis
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Picture this. Students in schools paid for with tax dollars are ordered to stand as a sign of respect for the federal government. If they sit or kneel, they face punishment. Sometimes, teachers res…
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Areo "Government schools are forcing students to take part in a political ritual. Those who believe such policies are necessary to prevent students from being disruptive ought to ponder precisely how sitting or kneeling quietly is disruptive" - 4d
From Satire to Reality: Monty Python Predicts Woke Culture
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Forty years ago, the iconic British comedy group Monty Python released their third feature film, Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The movie follows a young Jewish man who happens to be born on the sam…
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Areo 'Watching Life of Brian today, forty years after it was made, is still an eye-opening experience. Juxtaposing progressive pretension with Judeo-Christian dogma, the film brilliantly reveals the parallels between religious political orthodoxy" [email protected]_ambrosch 4d
Being Human Is A Quest: A Review of Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte
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  Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-nominated novel Quichotte (pronounced in the French way, key-SHOT) is a work of postmodern picaresque with a metaf…
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Areo "Quichotte is an American novel, refracted through the lens of the immigrant experience in the age of Trump. It explores what it means to be human, what it means to be uprooted from home, and what America has lost" by 5d
Reason and Myth in Postmodernity
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Irrational and mythological thinking have been gaining adherents recently. In his essay “Conservative Rationalism has Failed,” Yoram Hazony insists that an overemphasis on reason has corroded the m…
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Areo "In postmodern culture, new reactionary mythologies have replaced their predecessors and enjoy substantial support among segments of society mired in anomie, especially those left behind by capitalist inequality and precarity" argues 5d
Imperial Diversity
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The concepts of diversity and inclusion have great cultural power in American society right now.  Among their proponents, however, there is a failure to recognize these concepts as part of a paradi…
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Areo Andrew Gardner takes an anthropological look at the paradigm of diversity, its Americanist history and its exportation. 7d
Letter From the Editors: On Retracting the Essays of John Glynn
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Dear Areo readers. As many of you will now know, Areo was one of several outlets to have recently published pieces by a person calling himself “John Glynn.” It seems that Mr Glynn had claimed to ha…
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Areo A letter from the editors 9d
Scouting Without Faith
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I met my husband the summer before our junior year in high school. He had already achieved the rank of Eagle in The Boy Scouts of America (BSA). In those salad days of young love, we spent much of …
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Areo "Faking faith runs counter to the other eleven values of the Scout Law, each of which we embrace & want our boys to internalize. Foremost among those values is to be trustworthy: Tell the truth and keep promises" argues Lynette Craig () 11d
The Fabulist and the Publisher: A Journalistic and Academic Fraud Exposed
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John Anthony Glynn claimed to have a Ph.D. in psychology and professorships of psychology at several universities. He committed academic fraud by representing himself as a Ph.D. psychologist to several academic institutions and under those...
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Areo One of our former writers, "John A. Glynn", appears to have misrepresented his qualifications to various outlets. He did not tell us he had a PhD but did say he was a psychologist which might not be true. 12d
The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism): Matthew McManus: 9783030246815: Amazon.com: Books
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The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) [Matthew McManus] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This book is designed as a timely...
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Areo Our very own, (well, OK, rather promiscuous) releases his book The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics today! Those of you who have enjoyed his pieces for Areo will want this book. 12d
Education: An Economy of Exclusivity
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Readers over the age of fifty probably remember the 1970s as a depressing decade of stagflation, an oil crisis—and disco music. They may recall Studio 54, a New York nightclub where celebrities and…
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Areo "Whether they realize it or not, consumers base their decisions on who their fellow consumers will be." Carl Bankstone takes an in-depth look at how exclusivity works and does not work in education. 13d
Impossible Conversations
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A review of Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay’s Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide (2019) and announcing the Letter Wiki Impossible Conversations Competition James A. Lindsa…
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Areo Our own reviews "How to Have Impossible Conversations" by and and introduces the Impossible Conversations competition with . 14d
Impossible Conversations
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Searching for truth, together
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Areo How can you get involved in the Impossible Conversations competition? Just by having one! You don't have to be an academic or a writer. Just be someone who is willing & able to have a difficult conversation & do it well on 14d
Teaching Uncertainty: Cultivating a Heterodox Classroom and Life
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To quote someone a lot smarter than me, “I know that I know nothing.” This is the Socratic paradox which states that the only thing I’m certain of is my own uncertainty.
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Areo "Usually, after some initial stumbles, my students are able to handle unpopular opinions by either recognizing their merits or deconstructing them based on available evidence" - Brad Perry () on teaching uncertainty. 18d
Marx vs Foucault: Reflections on History and Power
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Karl Marx and Michel Foucault are two of the most cited critical theorists in the world today, simultaneously revered or reviled, depending on who you talk to. Their work has been subjected to coun…
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Areo "The main difference lies in the theory of freedom underpinning Marx, which is largely absent from the French thinker’s work. As a result, Foucault’s work indirectly abets certain reactionary viewpoints, while Marx’s does not" [email protected] 19d
The Historicist Illusion of Enlightenment
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The ways of the young are the ways of the future. That is why Roberto Fo, my thesis supervisor of last year, is worried about the prospects for liberal democracy. He and Yascha Mounk, author of The…
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Areo " Relativists hold that their worldview is the most tolerant, the most untainted by prejudice. But this specific type of tolerance renders them powerless against the intolerant." Tony Deng deconstructs historicism! 21d
Is Misogyny Holding Western Women Back?
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The term misogyny comes from the Greek word μισογυνισμός that translates as hatred of women. Very few would deny that gendered stereotypes and prejudices exist in the western world, but are our soc…
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Areo "Very few would deny that gendered stereotypes and prejudices exist in the western world, but are our societies characterized by hatred of women? ... A closer look at the data paints a more complicated picture" argues Maria Kouloglou () 26d
Seven Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology
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Evolutionary approaches to psychology hold the promise of revolutionizing the field and unifying it with the biological sciences. But among both academics and the general public, a few key misconce…
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Areo "Seven Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology" cleared up by Laith Al-Shawaf () 28d
Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom
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Last month, I was called to jury duty. Here in the US, many people, instead of seeing jury service as a quintessential civic duty, regard the obligation with impatience, exasperation and contempt. …
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Areo "Free people should recognize they have been blessed with a rare gift. Rights, like muscles, require regular exercise. They atrophy from neglect. Once freedom is lost, it is gone forever" argues Aaron Tao () 29d
Can We Make Ourselves Believe? A Letter Exchange
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Peter Boghossian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University. He is the author of A Manual for Creating Atheists (2013) and, with James Lindsay, of the forthcoming How to H…
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Areo Can We Make Ourselves Believe? 's account of the letter exchange between and for . 30d