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Are Academics Cowards? The Grip of Grievance Studies and the Sunk Costs of Academic Pursuit
There is much that should be said about the ways in which the dominant Social Justice ideology has negative impacts upon the university, free expression, academic freedom and, especially, the scien…
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"Are Academics Cowards? The Grip of Grievance Studies and the Sunk Costs of Academic Pursuit" by @ConceptualJames
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Why Multiculturalism Is Not at Odds with Integration: A Response to Ambrosch
I am rarely disappointed when reading Areo essays, so Gerfried Ambrosch’s recently published “Making Sense of Immigration: Why Multiculturalism Is at Odds with Integration,” left me feeling not onl…
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"Why Multiculturalism Is Not at Odds with Integration: A Response to Ambrosch" by @Galen_Watts
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Belief is Not Action: Why Peterson’s Theory of God is Wrong
As a Christian apologist, Jordan Peterson has done much to show the literary and psychological value of Biblical stories and the Judeo-Christian tradition. However, while he avoids metaphysical spe…
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"Belief is Not Action: Why Peterson’s Theory of God is Wrong" by Max Diamond. (@maxlevydiamond)
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Negativity and the Need for Optimism
Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference.—Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny In many ways, the world is a terrible pla…
Manchester City, Abraham Lincoln & True Sublime Heroism
Brazennose street in Manchester, an innocuous thoroughfare linking Albert Square and Deansgate, is home to a little known piece of Lancastrian history. There resides an unlikely but imposing four-m…
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Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future: Skin Color, Genetics, Race and Racism
There is more in heaven and earth than can be dreamt of in any human philosophy. This is why science is not philosophy. Those who map the skies, observe the patterns of a school of fish or dissect …
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"Why There Will Not Be a Beige Future: Skin Color, Genetics, Race and Racism" by @razibkhan
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Testing the Limits of Universalism in Science
Science traditionally aspires to be universal in two respects. First, it seeks fundamental knowledge—facts which are universally true. Second, it aims to be impersonal in practice; identity should …
Jordan Peterson: Philosophically Unorthodox, Psychologically Heterodox, Fundamentally Uncontroversial
It seems that in order to discuss Canadian psychology professor Jordan Peterson at all, a person must declare her loyalties right away, pronouncing him either a messiah or a devil. The primary prob…
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"Jordan Peterson: Philosophically Unorthodox, Psychologically Heterodox, Fundamentally Uncontroversial"by @LooraKennedy
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A Response to Portland State’s Vanguard’s Anonymous Letter.
On November 9th, Vanguard, Portland State University’s student newspaper ran a very strange article written not, it claims, by students but by twelve anonymous faculty members. This extraordinary …
Tackling Misdirected Blame—Disavowing All Forms of Anti-Semitism
It’s been almost two weeks since it happened. The US has had a midterm election. We’ve cast our votes in the hopes of a better future. We continue to grieve for those murdered and injured while cel…
A Persian Popinjay. A Review of the Film Bohemian Rhapsody
Warning: contains spoilers. The Demands of the Narrative The film opens with a close-up of star Rami Malek’s eye, a circlet of pale blue-grey iris clearly visible around a wide black pupil. The act…
Did the Enlightenment Endorse Slavery?
The counter-Enlightenment is alive and well. Students of the Enlightenment are often confronted by more or less crude defamations of it. Sometimes it is caricatured by postmodernists (ignorant of t…
The Case Against Mental Health Awareness Raising
In the wake of World Mental Health Day and Theresa May’s appointment of a suicide prevention minister, this might seem like the least propitious time to make a case against mental health awareness,…
How Coercive Is Polygyny?
Every society has certain socially prescribed rules that regulate mating and marriage, yet those rules can vary substantially. Understanding how cultural traditions differ can help us understand be…
Star Wars Politics
In our mad rush to infuse everything with galactic meaning, to create some epic big picture, we pervert or deny the little true pictures of everyday life
Gender Controversy Comes to Physics: A Response to the Statement Against Alessandro Strumia
Introduction Although physicists tend to fall on the liberal side of the political spectrum, at a professional level it’s generally accepted that science unites us and personal politics should be r…
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"Gender Controversy Comes to Physics: A Response to the Statement Against Alessandro Strumia" by an anonymous physicist.
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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”…
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And from @hpluckrose
"Cultural Marxism is a Myth. The Threat Comes from Elsewhere."
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Narcissism and the New Politics of Identity
Our political discourse is increasingly dominated by psychological vocabulary. From safe spaces to triggering, public life is made sense of through the application of ideas that originated within p…
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Areo will be publishing some edited-for-reading transcripts of Battle Of Ideas opening statements. @jacobreynolds91 of the @instofideas begins with:
"Narcissism and the New Politics of Identity."
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Bridging the Left: Democratic Socialism and the Democratic Party
The specter of democratic socialism is (sort of) upon us. At the very least, candidates communicating the Sanders narrative, and advocating his main policy positions, have become more prevalent and…
The Prophecies of Kavanaugh
Once again, liberals and conservatives destroy relationships with each other over disagreements about a matter that does not allow for a conclusive judgment.
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"Once again, liberals and conservatives are destroying relationships with each other over disagreements about a matter that does not allow for a conclusive judgment."
"The Prophecies of Kavanaugh" by @JohnRWoodJr
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