Jesse Singal
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The New Study On Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria Published In “Pediatrics” Is Genuinely Worthless
There’s a growing credibility crisis in youth gender research → Read More
Trans Rights and Gender Identity
In “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” Helen Joyce argues that sex is not just a social construct. → Read More
America Saw a Historic Rise in Murders in 2020. Why?
“If you wanted to think of this as potentially erasing several decades worth of progress, that wouldn’t be an overstatement,” says one expert. → Read More
Why Deplatforming Might Be Useless — Or Worse — When It Comes to Preventing Right-Wing Violence
The social science isn’t clear yet – but there might be a moderating effect to more public forums like Facebook and Twitter → Read More
The Theory That Explains the Politicization of Coronavirus
As with so many other facets of American life, cultural identity plays a big role in how people view the pandemic. → Read More
Why Coronavirus Makes February Feel Like Six Months Ago
If you feel like time has slowed down amid the coronavirus pandemic, you’re not alone. Here is what science has to say about how shock, novelty, and monotony affect our perception of time. → Read More
Stop Using the Term ‘Shelter in Place’ for the Coronavirus Crisis
It’s both misleading and confusing at a moment when public leaders need to be giving very clear instructions to the public. → Read More
Journalism is being eaten alive by opinion
Why the Covington disaster still stings so much one year on → Read More
How a (Mostly) Fake Campus Controversy Illustrates the Internet’s Outrage Economy
The now-famous bánh mì protests at Oberlin were mostly invented by the media. The interesting part is why. → Read More
Inside the Near Meltdown of Roxane Gay and Christina Hoff Sommers’s Australian Mini-Tour
A rowdy crowd, an attempt to suppress the video via a legal threat, and ongoing controversy over the host — it didn’t turn out as planned. → Read More
Even Conspiracy Theories Have Gotten Dumber, a New Book Shows
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism And the Assault on Democracy, by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, traces conspiracy theories throughout American history and shows how QAnon, Pizzagate, and others are worse than past theories. → Read More
Of Course the College Admissions Scandal Has an NCAA Angle
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the NCAA has popped up in a blockbuster story of college-admissions corruption. That’s because college sports are a fundamentally corrupt enterprise, and that corruption spreads outward. → Read More
How NYU and Food-Service Giant Aramark Stumbled Into a Black History Month PR Fiasco
A controversy over an insensitive dining-hall menu was a case study in what gets lost when universities start behaving like corporations. → Read More
YA Author Offers Apologies and Sacrifices to Social Justice Tribunal –
Months away from publishing her debut novel, Amélie Wen Zhao, a young Asian author and rising star of YA fiction, just killed her own book to appease a mob who condemned her work as racist despite the fact that they most likely hadn’t read it → Read More
A Civil Debate With Pot-Legalization Critic Alex Berenson
Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence, by Alex Berenson, draws a link between legalized recreational marijuana use, schizophrenia, and an increase in violent crime. Jesse Singal debates him about his research. → Read More
Is a Portland Professor Being Railroaded by His University for Criticizing Social-Justice Research?
Peter Boghossian, a Portland State University professor, claims his university is railroading him for his part on the “grievance studies” academic hoax. But the truth is significantly more complicated. → Read More
Did Marijuana Legalization Really Increase Homicide Rates?
A New York Times op-ed claims pot legalization increased the murder rates in certain states, but the truth is likely a lot more complicated. → Read More
How ‘Coddled’ Are American College Students, Anyway?
In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt make a more nuanced argument than many are going to give them credit for. It would be a mistake to ignore what they’re saying. → Read More
A CUNY Student Was Investigated for Criticizing Israel
A CUNY student was investigated after he criticized “Zionism,” triggering a Title VI investigation that bore a striking resemblance to the worst and most Kafkaesque Title IX cases. → Read More
Can a Philosopher Help Calm the Identity-Politics Wars?
An interview with Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity. → Read More