Culture
University's Creepy Bias Reporting System Wants Students' Names, Addresses, Soc Numbers
If you see something, say something
Nursing Student with Crippling Anxiety Sues University for Failing Her Twice
'On several occasions during the exam... breaking down and crying'
Want to Sabotage Bad Laws? Healthy Contempt is More Important Than Legal Strategy.
The enemy of defiance isn't tough cops or clever politicians; it's respect for the law
Coffee Research Casts Further Doubt on Warnings About Energy Drinks
How can 240 milligrams of caffeine per day be lethal when 750 is healthy?
Selfie-Taking Drone Could Be Good for Political Activists
Don't chalk the Lily camera up to millennial narcissism just yet.
Hacking the Programs in Your Mind: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
Fewer Christians in the United States: Fourth Great Awakening Over
Just as I predicted seven years ago
Classical Mythology Too Triggering for Columbia Students
Roman and Greek mythology "contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom," students say.
Campus Nags Want to Change How Male Students Think
The moral policing and censure of frats and lads is a scandal.
You'll Never Guess Which 2016 Candidate Penn Jillette Likes Best After Watching Their Awful Campaign Videos
Libertarian magician looks at political propaganda so you don't have to
Lefties Are Too Good and Right to Talk to You and Me
Which is an opportunity for us to create alternative institutions so we don't bother their delicate feelings
VID: No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence (UPDATED)
"When people knock on your door, and they are fleeing abuse, the United States is obligated morally and legally to let them in."
Will Austin Proposal to 'Control' Barbecue Cause Beloved Food Scene to Go Up in Smoke?
Poorly thought-out rules against odors, emissions could devastate restaurants, food trucks.
Edward Snowden Statue's Co-Creator Talks With Reason About Political Art, 3D Printing, and Going Legitimate
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
What The New York Times Gets Wrong About Cheap Nail Salons
Even if Asian nail salons are as exploitative and toxic as the Times says, the answer isn't more government oversight.
Mayweather and Pacquiao: Bureaucrats Bet on Meddling
The sports industry can look after its own wagers
By Feeding Bogus GMO Fears, Chipotle Treats Customers Like Idiots
The food chain tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda
Does Your College Really Need a Large, Foam, Third-Gender Mascot? Or Any Mascot at All?
Rutgers University is looking for more diverse mascots to represent its mediocre sports teams. Can you make the cut?
Hate Speech Is Free Speech
"No one has the right to a world in which he is never despised."
University of Minnesota Cracks Down on Charlie Hebdo Posters: The 'Powerless' Offended Have Veto Power on Campuses
Outrage privilege: Too many universities would rather censor speech than offend fanatics
Behind the Jade Helm 15 Conspiracy Theories
Why would people not want a military training exercise in their community? Well...
Two Readers React to the Viral Video About Mass Kidnappings and Stranger Danger
Blame bad luck, not bad parenting
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Transhumanism and the Singularity…
...but were afraid to ask. Q&A with R.U. Sirius & Jay Cornell, authors of Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism & the Singularity.
A&E Cancels Prostitution 'Reality' Series 8 Minutes
Sex workers say both premise of show and promises of help for them were a sham.
That Time Orson Welles Called for Outlawing Racist Speech
Some arguments have been around for a while.
CNN Anchor Says Constitution Doesn't Protect Hate Speech, Try Reading It. Okay, Let's Do That.
Spoiler: Hate speech actually is protected.
Mike Huckabee Officially Enters the Presidential Race
His speech stresses economic issues, but he also makes it clear that he's a socially conservative hawk.
Man Convicted of Sex on the Beach Likely to Get 15 Years
Excessive PDA, excessive sentencing
Murderer or Musician? Rapper Tiny Doo Reflects on Being Jailed for Rap Lyrics
Is violence in art a crime?
Campus Censorship and Anti-Sex Paranoia: Robby Soave Talks College Culture on Bloggingheads
CUNY Professor Angus Johnston hits back
Freddie Gray Is a Casualty of Baltimore's Police Unions
The police's privilege and self-protectiveness is on rich display in the whole sordid saga.
Bomb Threat at DC GamerGate Meetup Shows There Are Bad Eggs on the Other Side
Militant anti-feminists and scorched-earth social justice warriors deserve equal speech rights
