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Canada Plans to Release Data on ‘Transgender and Nonbinary’ Babies
The ideology and pseudoscience behind Canada’s plan to count “transgender” infants and toddlers.
 • Colin Wright

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Activists Are Redefining ‘Gender’ to Save a Collapsing Narrative
Why activists are shifting from denying the sex binary to reclassifying everything beyond gametes as “gender.”
 • Colin Wright
I Attended an Academic Freedom Symposium. It’s Worse Than You Think.
How a gathering meant to defend academic freedom failed to address the forces that most endanger it.
 • Holly Lawford-Smith
The NHS Puberty Blocker Experiment Is Science Theater
How the NHS PATHWAYS trial postpones accountability instead of uncovering the truth about puberty blockers.
 • Andy Lewis
The Multiculturalism Paradox
How identity-affirming policies fuel the competitive group dynamics that weaken national cohesion.
 • Jowan Mahmod
Beyond the Binary Is a Sea of Nonsense
What Fuentes and Lents get wrong about the sex binary.
 • Alex Byrne
No, ‘Anticipating Violence’ Is Not Violence
Taxpayer funded “research” shows how language is being manipulated to serve a radical ideological agenda.
 • James L. Nuzzo
Eager to Affirm, Yet Unwilling to Defend Their Claims
The peer-review process for the HHS report on pediatric gender medicine exposed the ideological capture of major medical organizations.
 • Colin Wright
After Years of Confusion, the Olympics Signal a Return to Biological Reality
The IOC is poised to announce new eligibility rules that finally ground women’s sport in biology.
 • Colin Wright
The Myth of ‘Detransition’
There’s no going back for “detransitioned” butches—only learning to live on a strange little island.
 • Keira Bell and Aaron Kimberly
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Escaping the Dissident Right’s Resentment Trap
How the politics of resentment traps young men—and how both secular wisdom and Christianity can offer a pathway out.
 • Julian Adorney
Why Christians Must Reject the Woke Right’s Answer to Racism
White identity politics is not the antidote to DEI—and is incompatible with the teachings of Christ.
 • Julian Adorney
‘Christ Is King’ Is the Woke Right’s ‘Black Lives Matter’
What was once a phrase of religious affirmation has now become a tool for extremist groups seeking to advance exclusionary and, increasingly, openly…
 • Colin Wright
Atheism Did Not Cause Wokeism
If the decline of religion really did bring about wokeism, the last place we would expect it to arise is the United States.
 • Helen Pluckrose
Neo-Atheism’s Victory Was a Loss for Atheism
By dismissing religion’s positive aspects and creating a societal void, neo-atheism has inadvertently paved the way for activists to find meaning in…
 • Kushal
Republicans Support Indoctrination in Public Schools After All
Republicans are hypocritically supporting the mandatory display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
 • Brad Polumbo
The Navajo Nation’s Spiritual Battle for the Moon
It’s time for the US government to stop its unconstitutional preference for Native American religion.
 • Elizabeth Weiss
Destroying a Satanic Display Goes Against America’s Founding Principles
Liberal, secular democracies cannot afford to accommodate extremists’ notions of heresy or blasphemy if they want to remain liberal, secular…
 • Helen Pluckrose

Free Speech

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Elon Musk Was Right About the ADL
A new study finds that the ADL’s DEI-style messaging provokes hostility instead of reducing antisemitism.
 • Colin Wright
Harvard, Trump, and the Battle Over Bias
Demanding viewpoint affirmative action is not the correct response to Harvard’s longstanding political bias.
 • Colin Wright
In Colorado, ‘Misgendering’ Your Kid Could Lose You Custody
A new bill would make not using a child’s preferred name or pronouns a factor in custody battles.
 • Colin Wright
I Hate Gender Ideology but I Don’t Hate Trans People
I don’t believe we can win this fight by demonizing an entire group of people. Nor do I want to win it that way.
 • Eva Kurilova
Biology Is Not Bigotry
The redefinition of a term with a long biological history can be seen only as an attempt to force ideology onto nature.
 • Jerry Coyne
The Women Who Wouldn’t Shut Up
A review of Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn’s ‘The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’
 • Ben Appel
Why Is the Liberal Order Eroding (And What Can We Do About It)?
If we’re going to preserve the freedoms we cherish, we must find the courage to stand up for our ideals.
 • Julian Adorney and Mark Johnson
What Is Cancel Culture? (Part 3 of 3)
Cancel culture can sometimes look like a social justice movement, but far more often it’s the opposite.
 • Julian Adorney
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