When Taboos Collapse
Like The Great Feminization was last year’s conservative essay of note, this year’s is Niall Ferguson’s The Death of History (not to be confused with Fukuyama’s The End of History).…
The fear of status
Czech anthropology professor Ivo Budil observed in an excellent interview that what keeps contemporary society obedient to liberal elites is neither brute force, nor an overwhelming police apparatus, nor the…
The Arc of Morality
“Humanity’s moral intelligence has, according to a number of authors, gradually increased over the centuries, and some scholars believe this development has been driven by the advance of science and…
Directing Scientific Progress
RAND Corporation has published an illuminating report on China’s scientific strategy and the ways in which the country is building a research advantage with profound implications for both military and…
The Nature of Consensus
An excellent observation from the Elder of Ziyon on the nature of so-called scientific consensus. He pointed out that not all forms of consensus are the same. Sometimes a scientific…
The puzzle of sex
Why do men and women have different psychological traits? In its own way, the course of the debate over this question has been fascinating. At first, the prevailing view was…