The Power of Prediction
May 11, 2025
You’re standing at the top of a mountain, surveying the vast landscape below. The information…
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The Legacy of Freud
May 5, 2024
Did you really want to eat that last piece of cake, or were you secretly…
Simone de Beauvoir
January 7, 2024
Simone de Beauvoir is often cast as only a novelist or a mere echo of…
What Is Masculinity?
September 24, 2023
Strong, in control, and stoic—these are traits of the ideal masculine man. Men who fail…
The Philosophical Legacy of Darwin
February 12, 2023
More than a century and a half after On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin’s…
Reading the Troubled Past
March 13, 2022
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe lambasted Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as a deeply racist work that…
Misogyny and Gender Inequality
March 14, 2021
With the recent #MeToo viral campaign, along with the wave of prominent male figures toppled…
Fractured Identities
April 5, 2020
Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and…
Race Matters
February 2, 2020
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin,…
Queerness
September 15, 2019
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual… it is safe to say that new ideas of gender…
Neuroscience and Free Will
May 20, 2018
We like to think of ourselves as rational agents who exercise conscious control over most…
Science and Politics – Friends or Foes?
March 4, 2018
The ideal of science is objectivity in the service of advancing knowledge. We tend to…
Science and Gender
November 27, 2016
What does gender have to do with science? The obvious answer is ‘nothing.’ Science is…
Self and Self-Presentation
December 6, 2015
We craft personal brands or images to accompany or represent ourselves in various situations. These…
The Changing Face of Feminism
September 20, 2015
Reactions to the word ‘feminist’ today range from staunch rejection or ambivalence to fervent endorsement…
Forbidden Words
March 15, 2015
Some words, like n****r, ch*nk, and c*nt, are so forbidden that we won’t even spell…
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