Princeton’s new ‘men’s engagement manager’ to combat aggressive masculinity on campus 

Are young men at Princeton University violent, aggressive, hyper-masculine, stalkers, or rapists? A new position at the Ivy League institution indicates campus officials apparently think enough of its male students grapple with such problems that it warrants hiring a certified clinician dedicated to combating them. The university is in the process of hiring an “Interpersonal […]

Potemkin Subway

Anybody still wondering what New York City is going to look like post-Broken Windows policing? Just check out Gotham’s latest wide-screen drama—the Invasion of the Sidewalk Snatchers. When Mayor Bill de Blasio, an enabler of the city’s metastasizing vagrancy crisis, summoned the press this weekend to watch him take the subway four stops in Brooklyn, […]

Karen Oliveto, “Vampire Evangelism,” and Dancing Queens

Lesbian “Bishop” Karen Oliveto delivered the sermon at the Ordination and Commissioning Service during the 2017 Rocky Mountain Annual Conference that centered on the ramifications of the Church rejecting the heart of God. We, as a body, “muse proudly at our own accomplishments,” “Photoshop God out of the picture,” and “close our hearts to the Holy Spirit.” […]

A new way to love: in praise of polyamory

I have never enjoyed typical monogamy. It makes me think of dowries and possessive prairie voles who mate for life, and historically all monogamous relationship models have owned women in some way, with marriage there for financial purposes and the ownership of property. It opens the boundaries between friend and lover in a safe way […]

The Diversity Fundamentalists

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) is the new catchphrase of today’s elite businesses and universities. Those institutions assume D&I is both a means—to excellence—and an end in itself, making them more closely resemble the larger world of which they are a part. So understood, companies from Facebook to Apple to Goldman Sachs, and academic establishments from […]

Competition over collective victimhood recognition: When perceived lack of recognition for past victimization is associated with negative attitudes towards another victimized group

In the last decades, Western societies have witnessed a growing tendency of minority groups to profile themselves as victims in order to obtain more societal recognition (Moscovici & Pérez, 2009). Members of these minorities have publicly expressed negative attitudes towards other minorities, although the latter were not responsible for their past victimization. For example, Khalid Muhammad, […]