Animals use a broad range of strategies to advertise themselves in the mating market. In some instances, visual cues highlight a morphological feature - for example, the peacock's tail.
Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.
There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.
Offending someone's religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no 'but' qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.
The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context as the peacock's tail is on the peacock.
My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.
University students should rightly be exposed to a plurality of viewpoints as part of their intellectual growth, rather attending the 'flock of sheep association of like-minded individuals.'
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.
One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.
There are many benefits to having interesting friends on Facebook. In my case, given that fellow academics constitute a sizable portion of my online friends, I am at times privy to shared studies that I might otherwise miss (or perhaps only identify at some future date).
People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.
A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.
Trigger warnings are an instantiation of the West's zeitgeist of perpetual offense and victimhood that defines much of public discourse.
Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.
No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.
Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.
Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.
If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.
When a political party denies scientific facts, then by all means, they should be called out on their anti-science stance.