Brian Leiter, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago, wrote a response to my response to Green’s idiotic post on conservatives in academia. Some of the points he makes echoes what other people have said on Daily Nous, where…
Leslie Green, professor of philosophy at Oxford, recently published a post on his blog called “Why it is hard to be a campus conservative”. I said elsewhere that I have rarely come across anything that was both condescending and stupid to…
I wrote a post a few months ago that generated a lot of controversy and was heavily criticized. I wrote it after the officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted, which prompted everyone to lament the so-called epidemic of unarmed…
I was going to publish my post about police violence in the US today, but Schumer and Pelosi released a statement about DACA last night, so I figured that I should make a quick point about this instead. According to…
Gregory Cochran wrote a review of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond in his usual ruthless style. Some people might think that he spends too much time on Diamond’s ridiculous claim about the people of Papua New Guinea, but I…
Yesterday, Dave Rubin, who hosts a popular talk show, announced on Twitter that Youtube, which is owned by Google, had more or less demonetized his entire catalogue.If you don’t know Rubin, he is a very mild classical liberal who endorsed…
A recent survey discussed by Eric Kaufmann here indicates that, in the West, whether one believes that it’s racist to want to restrict immigration in order to preserve one’s culture predicts whether one thinks immigration should be reduced. But I don’t…
La théorie du grand remplacement, d’après laquelle les Français d’origine européenne sont voués à devenir une minorité en France en raison de l’immigration de masse, reste un tabou. Les médias présentent systématiquement cette théorie comme un fantasme d’extrême-droite et l’attaquent…
During the controversy about James Damore’s infamous memo, which I briefly discussed here, I read a lot of nonsense from a lot of people, who clearly don’t understand much about this debate. If you have been following the debate about…
Linh Dinh is a Vietnamese-American poet, who has been traveling around the US for years, in order to take pictures, talk to ordinary people and write about their life. He writes short reports about what he’s seen and the people…