Clay Routledge
Prof & writer/ studies psychology of meaning, religion, nostalgia & freedom/ fitness & garage dojo enthusiast/ Columnist @QuilletteM/ Contributor @nytopinion
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A Professor Spoke the Truth, He Still Pays the Price
Dissenters from campus orthodoxy often need a rare kind of personal fortitude.
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Clay Routledge
When I read stories like this, the thing that really hits me is how it is so often the case that professors are betrayed by other professors. If you think a colleague writing an op-ed in the NYT is a threat to students, you are the problem.
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Game Boys have infinite lives. At 30, they live on in unexpected ways
Thirty years after its release in 1989, the legacy and enthusiasm for the Game Boy lives on in ways far beyond its intended use.
The Twilight of Liberalism?
The place and the object gave ample scope for moralizing on the vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave; and it was agreed, that in proportion to her former...
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Excellent essay from @EPoe187 and @BenWinegard. Though I agree that the "cognitive elite" are better able to navigate the world fashioned by liberalism, I propose they also face serious existential threats from the radical individualism liberalism caused.
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Keep the modernists away from the Notre-Dame restoration
Reconstructions should in general aim to recreate and not transform the earlier style. Let this philosophy guide the Notre-Dame restoration project
Poll: Church membership in US plummets over past 20 years
NEW YORK (AP) — The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year,...
Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment
Nusrat was set on fire after accusing her headmaster of sexual harassment, but spoke out before dying.
Inspiring Teacher: Clay Routledge, professor of psychology | NDSU News | NDSU
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Clay Routledge
I am really honored to have been selected as an inspiring teacher at my university. I've had so many great students in my lab and classes.
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Middlebury College Cancels Conservative Philosopher's Lecture on Totalitarianism
Middlebury College has canceled a campus speech by Catholic philosopher and politician Ryszard Legutko in response to planned protests by liberal activists.
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When some people pay up to $70K a year for a liberal arts education, I guess what they really want is a liberal education. And since these colleges are run like businesses, that is what they get.
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The Fundamental Legitimacy of Donald Trump
To critics, Trump threatened the bedrock of American government. He didn’t.
Click here to support Seventh District Baptist Church Fires St Landry organized by Ruth Jack
Three historically black churches have burned in less than two weeks in one south Louisiana parish, where officials said they had found “suspicious elements” in each case. The officials have not ruled out the possibility of arson, or the possibility...
Is the 'Intellectual Dark Web' Politically Diverse?
Earlier this month, popular author and podcaster Sam Harris tweeted out a graph titled, “A Visual Breakdown of Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) Positions.” The graph purports to compare the political positions of six prominent members of the IDW on the...
Clay Routledge
Interesting piece on the IDW. I have mixed feelings about the IDW idea. Some of the folks associated with it offer good observations and ideas but I don't like the IDW label. Seems more like a marketing campaign than a meaningful description.
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Concordia University Disinvites Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield Over His Conservative Gender Views
Administrator says they "were unable to reach consensus as to what we wanted to achieve with this event," which is pure doublespeak.
Who Are the Men Without Sex?
The “sex drought” is back in the news. The release of a new wave of the General Social Survey in March brought with it the revelation that the proportion of Americans self-reporting no sex in the past year continues to climb, hitting 23% in 2018....
Clay Routledge
"Young men’s sexlessness is mostly about access to marriage, and secondarily about economic disadvantage. But increasingly, these two go together."
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Various forms of existential distress are associated with aggressive tendencies
We propose that aggressive tendencies are more (vs. less) pronounced among people who frequently (vs. less frequently) experience challenges to their …
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New research connecting aggression to the need for meaning. Loneliness, boredom, and disillusionment predict greater aggressive tendencies and this appears to be partially explained by these existentially distressing states motivating a search for meaning.
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At NEJM, change a top offers a chance to reshape the world’s oldest medical journal
The retirement of Dr. Jeffrey Drazen as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine has created an opportunity to bring a new perspective.
Is Secular Humanism a Religion?
It is now a rather old story: secular humanism is a religion. A court case in 1995 examined the issue and concluded, rightly, that science, in the form of the theory of evolution, is not a religion. In 2006, the BBC aired a program called The...
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Some good observations on the religious qualities of secular humanism. My view, as many know, is that humans are inherently religious. Increasingly, many people think and say they aren't religious, but their behavior usually tells a different story.
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