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When ‘Affirmation’ Means Sterilization
Most youth report wanting children someday, yet very few take steps to protect their fertility before medical transition. A new study reveals why.
 • Colin Wright
Gender Nihilism and the Revolutionary Impulse
Why the breakdown of meaning and an embodied identity fuels extremist violence.
 • Dear Dark Mother...
Why Recreational Fitness Data on Trans Athletes Can’t Set Elite Sports Policy
What a widely cited BJSM paper actually shows—and why it doesn’t answer questions about elite competition.
 • James Smoliga, DVM, PhD
Imane Khelif Finally Admits the Truth—and the Media Still Won’t Say It
What was long obvious from evidence is now confirmed by the athlete himself.
 • Colin Wright
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons Rejects Adolescent Gender Surgery and Raises Serious Concerns Regarding All Minor Gender…
ASPS Position Statement: gender surgery for minors fails the evidence test.
 • SEGM

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Punitive Femininity: When Moral Concern Becomes License to Commit Violence
A new survey finds that women are more likely than men to endorse political violence.
 • Colin Wright
Gender Medicine’s Hall of Mirrors
How institutional consensus and moral certainty replaced evidence in pediatric gender medicine.
 • Joe Figliolia
The Day I Wanted to Be a Father
How I mistook completeness for permanence and missed the inheritance I was meant to pass on.
 • Colin Wright
Just Semantics
How the use of psychological jargon can undermine law.
 • Pamela Paresky
“Scholarly Harassment” and the Sisterhood of Academia
A new proposal designed to shield female scholars from criticism will destroy the university.
 • James L. Nuzzo
Why Migration Activates Identity
Difference, not similarity, strengthens group identity.
 • Jowan Mahmod
How the Debate Over Men in Women’s Sports Both Obscured and Advanced Sport Science
A cautionary tale about policy, science, and the cost of abandoning clear definitions.
 • Gregory Brown
Why the ‘Lost Generation’ Must Take Legal Action
Lawsuits are our only hope for ending systemic discrimination against white men in academia.
 • Colin Wright
Why Critiquing Crazy Academic Papers Is Important
How post-publication review exposes broken peer review and taxpayer-funded nonsense.
 • James L. Nuzzo
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Why Migration Activates Identity
Difference, not similarity, strengthens group identity.
 • Jowan Mahmod
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

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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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