Remember James Damore, the young Google engineer who was sacked last August for resisting the company’s gender equality programme? Damore wasn’t against having more women in tech, he just did not believe the present male-female imbalance is owing to sexism and can be rectified by changing men’s attitudes. The sexes tend to have different work
READ MOREMisinformation can be deadly, especially when it comes to issues like school shootings. This is because it can build support for policies that increase fatalities and generate opposition to reforms that can save lives. Despite these high stakes, a wide array of media outlets have spread fictions about violence, firearms, and armed security in the
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We’ve pointed out that the narrative that “the Russians did it” is getting a little out of control. BuzzFeed apparently agrees. Wednesday, in a piece titled “Stop Blaming Russian Bots For Everything,” the media outlet said enough is enough. “By now you know the drill: massive news event happens, journalists scramble to figure out what’s
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The myth that Sweden is a utopian paradise where all the social problems have been solved and that you can have high growth with high taxes has been touted by Bernie Sanders as well as the many Millennials that follow him. The glory days for Sweden economically took place prior to the 1960s, when
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Sometimes, when reading G.K. Chesterton, one comes across a telling sentence buried in the middle of a very long paragraph. Here’s one from What’s Wrong with the World: “The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future.” We’ve heard a good deal of talk in recent years about something called the
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review and the father of postwar American conservatism. In his honor, here are six quotes by the inimitable writer on collectivism, freedom, and power. On government power (I): “The government can’t do anything for you, except in proportion as
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