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The World Isn’t Entering a New Age of Nationalism
In his 1981 book, The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, Peter Singer argues that our sense of moral responsibility has steadily grown to encompass larger and larger groups of…
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"The World Isn't Entering a New Age of Nationalism" by @mattjj89
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How to Escape the Partisan Mindset and Why You’ll Probably Fail
Introduction Our progressively polarized political climate, combined with the growth of various social media platforms, has led to an increasing consensus that the culture is devolving into distinc…
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"How to Escape the Partisan Mindset and Why You'll Probably Fail" by @victorbruzzone and @MattPolProf
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The Revolutionary Nature of Intersectionality
Over the past few years, a number of platforms, including the Heterodox Academy blog, Areo and Quillette, have been publishing very perspicacious critiques of intersectionality as it is practiced t…
The Reluctant Leftist: Pragmatism and Liberty
Liberty and Regulations Individual liberty—the right to determine one’s own path in life, and the opportunity to improve oneself or squander that potential—has long been of great importance to me, …
How Post-Modern Conservatism Emerged
“Truth is not Truth” Rudy Guiliani, August 19, 2018 Introduction In an earlier article for Areo, I discussed the state of conservatism today, and argued that we are witnessing the emergence of pos…
Charles Darwin, Cautious Advocate of Racial Equality and Human Rights
Charles Darwin has long been recognized as one of the world’s greatest scientists and the founder of scientific biology: at the same time, and for the same reason, he has been persistently attacked…
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"Charles Darwin: Cautious Advocate of Racial Equality and Human Rights" by @RobDarbyCanberr
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Eros: An Obituary
The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual ac…
Feminist Frequency and the Truth About Video Games
Since 2013, the Feminist Frequency series Tropes vs Women has been an important voice in examining and reshaping how female characters are portrayed in video games. Featuring executive director Ani…
How Did We Become Post-Liberal?
Introduction In what follows, I will offer the best picture I can of the character of liberalism as a set of political theories, given that there has never been a single pure or true form of libera…
Memes and the Casual Conversation Around Mental Illness
If you’ve been on the internet for long enough, you must have seen at least one joke or meme about mental health. BuzzFeed alone seems to publish a list of such jokes at least every other month, co…
On Abortion: Time, Space, Error and Ethics.
Nobody wants an abortion. No woman wants one, and no man who has thought about the issue wants any woman he cares about to be in a position in which she feels compelled to have one. Sometimes, thou…
No, Liberal Lefties are Not Right-Wing
Left-wing liberals who are opposed to the identity politics developments on the left increasingly find ourselves accused of being right-wing, referred to as “right-wing” and scornfully …
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Our most-read article of August was "No, Liberal Lefties are not Right-wing" by @HPluckrose
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What the Intellectual Dark Web Can Learn from Orwell
At the end of a 1940 essay on Charles Dickens, George Orwell described his subject as a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened … a man who is…
Brief History of a Twitter Spat or How Not to Argue Online
Twitter has proven an exceptionally useful platform for me. Through my activity there, I have made new real life friends and interacted with people from all walks of life and all over the world. I’…
Anti-Semitism: The Case Against Corbyn and the Labour Party
Even the most attentive observer could be forgiven for failing to keep up with the extent of the anti-Semitic scandals currently engulfing Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
Radical Absolutism: Linking Meat, Abortion and Murder
It is in our nature to anthropomorphize. Most of the time, this tendency is fairly harmless, but when it leads us to prioritize the welfare of pets over other humans, or fetuses over women’s health…
Virtue Ethics for the Modern Age
Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert, trained hypnotist and erudite public commentator, posed what may seem like an odd question on his blog last year: “why do we need moral lead…
Indefensible by Rohini Hensman: Book Review
Rohini Hensman has written a book that I have waited a long time to read. It is a much needed critique of the Left from the Left and a rallying cry for those of us who call ourselves leftists and s…
Who is Afraid of Cultural Marxism: What the Frankfurt School Can Still Teach Us
Today cultural Marxism, or “post-modern neo-Marxism” as it is sometimes called on days when one doesn’t care about aesthetic grace, is often invoked as a boogey man by many conservative commentator…
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"Who is Afraid of Cultural Marxism?: What the Frankfurt School Can Still Teach Us" by @MattPolProf
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The View from a High Horse: The Harris/Peterson Debates
There is an odd tendency within some philosophical communities to look down on public discourse, as though we were mid-twentieth-century Frenchmen. For years, philosophers have sat in their offices…