Helen Pluckrose
Editor @AreoMagazine
Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Does grievance studies well which is to say badly.
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A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
Misogyny and mass shootings in the United States are closely intertwined.
Are You Drinking Too Much Tea? How To Prevent The Side Effects?
Drinking too much tea can have the same repercussions as drinking too much alcohol and can have lot of other side effects.
Dick Braine is elected leader of UKIP
He wants to establish UKIP as the 'far moderate voice of common sense'
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Helen Pluckrose
I'm sure the Plymouth Herald just didn't know he prefers to be called "Richard."
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Gadflies Help Us Break the 'Groupfeel' Trance and Improve Civil Discourse
For decades, research has consistently found that Republicans and Democrats alike imagine that the gap between their own opinions and those of their political opponents is wider than it is.
Does Everyone Really Need to Go to School?
A student of mine—let’s call him Jackson— is trapped in public education. He shuns school and receives many tickets for his truancy, but the law ushers him back in over and over again, regard…
So to Speak podcast: ‘The Grievance Studies Affair’
Three writers submitted 20 fake papers to academic journals — seven were accepted. What did they try to prove? We examine the "Grievance Studies Affair."
Tuvel-style mobbing comes to sociology: young Marxist sociologist pens critque of Black Lives Matter and its academic reception...
...and is now being pilloried because--you guessed it--he's white, didn't cite scholars of the preferred identity, etc. etc. etc. The peer-reviewed article is here and the "open letter" of defamation is here. (For those who don't recall the...
Helen Pluckrose
"To be blunt, the most prominent figures associated with Black Lives Matter do not competently interpret the
world, nor do they offer a realistic strategy to change it" argues the Marxist scholar. Cue outrage & online mobbing. A little more info here
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Call for Panellists
Applications are open for panellists for our symposium “Decolonise STEM: Resisting, Unlearning and Imagining”. Date and Location: Saturday 5th October 2019, University College London Ke…
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So, I have applied to speak on the second panel using their language to be very clear about what I would argue. I wonder if they will be receptive?
decolonisestem.home.blog/call-for-panel… pic.twitter.com/NXUIyBZaix
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How Religious Arguments Cheat in the Marketplace of Ideas
While the separation of church and state is a norm in many western societies, it is often inadequately upheld in the marketplace of ideas. Claims that the US country is a Christian country, and the…
35 - Dayne and Clyde Rathbone - Letter: Changing the Nature of Online Conversations
2:42 Dayne and Clyde’s backgrounds and why they decided to found Letter
10:50 What is Letter? How does the form nudge us towards more worthwhile forms of exchange.
16:16 How to avoid trolls and call-o
Ways of Knowing with Helen Pluckrose
I speak with grievance studies scholar Areo magazine editor Helen Pluckrose on the epistemology behind postmodern and applied postmodern thinking. She is wri...
Foucault and Marxism: Rewriting the Theory of Historical Materialism - Mark Olssen, 2004
This article explores the relationship of Foucault to Marxism. Although he was often critical of Marxism, Foucault's own approach bears striking parallels to Ma...
That Mysterious Property, White Privilege
In Molière’s play Le Malade Imaginaire (1673), the president of the faculty of medicine poses the question “Quare opium facit dormire?” (“Why does opium induce sleep?”). The character Thomas Diafoi…
Prolegomena to a Future Research Ethic
GrievanceYou might remember the grievance studies hoax from about a year ago. It was when James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian and Helen Pluckr…
Why We Need To Stop Calling Women "Girls"
"What can I get you girls?" It's one of the first things my friends and I always hear when we're ordering something in a restaurant or bar. Men of all demographics use the phrase, as do a lot of women. It's become so common that I don't even flinch a
How to Have Impossible Conversations
"This is a self-help book on how to argue effectively, conciliate, and gently persuade. The authors admit to getting it wrong in their own past conversations...
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Today, @BridgetPhetasy has been sunbathing & reading about how to have impossible conversations!
#ImpossibleConversations hachettebooks.com/titles/peter-b…
@peterboghossian @ConceptualJames pic.twitter.com/zEdbLc2qsJ
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On Free Will: A Letter Exchange
Benjamin Burgis teaches philosophy at Rutgers University in New Jersey and is a sci fi author. His new book, Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left has been reviewed for this magazine by Matt Mc…
34 - Jamie Woodhouse - Sentientism
25:04 Can we derive moral values from reason?
27:30 Veganism
42:20 The nature of sentience
53:20 AI
59:50 Humans versus non-humans
1:03:50 Cognitive dissonance in everyday life
1:08:20 Are the lives o