Helen Pluckrose
Editor @AreoMagazine
Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left
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Since I announced by Change UK candidacy I’ve been accused of Islamophobia – it’s nothing short of a smear campaign
I believe one of the great failings of politics over the last decade has been the lack of moderate, good-faith, humane voices in debates about difficult issues
An Introduction
I am honoured and delighted to stand as a European Parliament election candidate for Change UK – The Independent Group. There will be lots more to discuss during the campaign about our hopes for th…
Melbourne cafe that charged men 18 per cent 'man tax' is closing down
Handsome Her, located in Brunswick in Melbourne's inner north, made headlines in 2017 when it tried to tackle gender inequalities by charging men more and seating women first.
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We don't know exactly why this businesses is closing down but I wouldn't have eaten at a place which charged people more or less depending on immutable characteristics and I think most people feel the same way. This is a good thing.
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Diversity Drop-Out
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…
PART THREE: The Hunted Individual
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The Third Part of the Evergreen series by @MikeNayna is here! I had to watch it in short bursts because it is alternately cringeworthy & rage-inducing. The entitlement of the students and the willingness of the faculty to humiliate themselves is too much.
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The Personal and the Political: Reconciling Right and Left Perspectives
The Left proposes political solutions to essentially personal problems, while the Right proposes personal solutions to fundamentally political problems.
Two for Tea with Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose: 23 - Bridget Phetasy - The Right to Hyperbole: Addictions, Emotions, Comedy and Sex on Apple Podcasts
Show Two for Tea with Iona Italia and Helen Pluckrose, Ep 23 - Bridget Phetasy - The Right to Hyperbole: Addictions, Emotions, Comedy and Sex - Apr 21, 2019
The Answer to Hateful Speech is Better Speech: An Invitation to a Debate
This essay anticipates a debate at the University of Leeds which will be live streamed on Inaya’s YouTube channel, on 7 May, from 5.30–7.30pm (BST). Two narratives have dominated discourse on freed…
Helen Pluckrose
And stop protecting people from being able to hear arguments they want to engage with. Inaya Folarin Iman-Oyejobi has something to say about that.
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Middlebury College Crisis Meeting
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Students felt their academic freedom had been compromised because they were too distraught over the presence of this individual on their campus to learn.
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Listening at the Great Awokening
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…
No, Secular Humanism is Not a Religion
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 and Letter: A Message from the Editors
Greetings! We at Areo are very excited to be trialing a partnership with the new conversation site Letter. Areo prides itself on being a nonpartisan site. This doesn’t mean that our writers lack st…