INTRODUCTION It is a tradition for me to map out my own ideological worldview via taking as many political compass tests as possible and then posting them online. My 2019 and 2020 results are documented in a previous post (see here). I am continuing this trend my posting my 2021 results…

INTRODUCTION The question of race has plagued social discourse in one way or another for longer than can be properly imagined. One question that continues to provoke fierce debate is whether race is a social construct, or reflects biological reality. The current cultural orthodoxy maintains that race is nothing more than…

PART ONE: PREVALENCE “More women (97.5%) than men (93.5%) had experienced unwanted sexual activity; more men (62.7%) than women (46.3%) had experienced unwanted intercourse.” Muehlenhard & Cook, 1988 38% of men and 30% of women in heterosexual relationships have reported experiencing sexual coercion Straus et al., 1996, Table 4 “Overall, 130 female students (76.9%) and 91 male students (67.4%) reported they had experienced one or more incidents of unwanted sexual activity. Similar numbers of male and female students reported most types of nonconsensual sexual activity; the exception was being felt up, which significantly more female than male students reported.”

Few recent political events seem to have had the impact as that of George Floyd’s death. Protests and riots have been ongoing for multiple months now across the world. And yet the question of exactly how Floyd died has remained somewhat uncertain. Evidence continues to slowly trickle out. Most recently…

James Lindsay is a smart person. At least, I think he generally can be classified as one. This much is clear from his book Cynical Theories, as well as the New Dicsourses website, his various articles on places like Quillette and Areo, and so on. But just because Lindsay is…

100 Gecs is a polarising music act. Comprised of Dylan Brady and Laura Les, the duo burst onto the music scene with their song Money Machine back in June of 2019, racking up millions of views. This was then followed shortly by their debut album, 1000 gecs, described by reviewers…

It is the year 2020. We have just exited the 2010’s, which could be described as the decade that Social Justice became mainstream. As illustrated in a Twitter thread by Zach Goldberg, the 2010’s were the decade that concepts like White Privilege, Diversity, and Implicit Bias really started picking up…

INTRODUCTION About a year ago, I decided to start archiving my various political compass results to track how my politics change over time. I thought it would be an interesting project, something of a digital time capsule of my ideological alignment. Well, a year has passed since then, so I thought…

The Alt-Right is one of the most controversial political movements of the 2010s, and for good reason. They have achieved the weaponisation of meme culture in a way no other moment has been able to and caused political violence that thas killed more people than any other contemporary American political…