The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis Jon Haidt In May 2014, Greg Lukianoff invited me to lunch to talk about something he was seeing on college campuses that disturbed him. Greg is the president of FIRE (the  Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ), and he has worked tirelessly since 2001 to defend the free speech rights of college students. That almost always meant pushing back against administrators who didn’t want students to cause trouble, and who justified their suppression of speech with appeals to the emotional “safety” of students—appeals that the students themselves didn’t buy. But in late 2013, Greg began to encounter new cases in which  students  were pushing to  ban   speakers , punish people for  ordinary speech , or  implement policies  that would chill free speech. These students arrived on campus in the fall of 2013 already accepting the idea ...

  Is the US Funding an Experiment in Digital Control in Ukraine? Marie Hawthorne I Fighting between Russia and Ukraine has been going on for a little over a year now, ending the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men and displacing millions.  Ukraine’s Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov,  invited Western arms manufacturers  to test their newest weapons against Russians in 2022. And indeed, all kinds of weaponry have been flowing into Ukraine.  It is truly a testing ground. So, this begs the question, is anything else getting tested there?  The Ukrainian government seems pretty willing to use its own citizens as guinea pigs, and the American government seems pretty willing to foot the bill.  Are American tax dollars going to any other interesting projects? Here’s what the US is funding in Ukraine. Yes, actually.  Volodymyr Zelensky became president of Ukraine in May 2019, and almost immediately he introduced his idea of a “ country in a smartp...