“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which…

Tom Nichols’ recent piece understandably reflects many variants of ongoing concerns and criticisms towards universities and the perceived overreaching of students. Whilst his argument undoubtedly has grounding in certain facts and events that have transpired over the past decade, his overarching conclusion emerges from a great leap – some would say, one deeply uncharitable to…

In 2016, academic Jordan Peterson rose to prominence by opposing Canada’s C-16 Bill:a Bill he erroneously claimed would compel speech from citizens by forcing them to address transgender students by their preferred pronouns. Of great angst to Peterson was a piece of advice from Toronto University that, should he fail to address transgender students by their preferred…

Identity politics is a term that attracts bifurcated responses and invokes starkly distinct imagined connotations. On the one hand, it appears to be at the forefront of progressive activism, a connecting bridge between intersectionality analysis and large-scale student movements; on the other hand it appears to be associated with the insular, exclusionary tendencies of politics…

From Parkland to the Toronto van attacks, elements of a simmering hatred toward women lie just below the surface. But, in a country where Supreme Court justices hold credible accusations of sexual assault and the President himself boasts about grabbing women “by the pussy”, these connections are either overlooked or downplayed. Contrary to conventional wisdom, an…

In the opening scene of I, Robot, a terrifying car crash throws Chicago police detective Del Spooner (played by Will Smith) and a 12 year-old girl into the nearby ocean. A passing robot, through a brute calculation of odds, dives in to save Del’s life at the expense of the child’s. The experience instils Del with…