Leslie Sam Kim recounts her unexpected run-ins with cancel culture. She explores the nature of group outrage, the importance of behavior over belief in navigating today’s online discourse, and the need for genuine conversation and meaningful discourse.

Vamık Volkan and Kevin Volkan survey the various forms of aggression found in the animal kingdom—defensive, parental, predatory, and display—and provide insight into the origins and causes of human violence.

Joseph Frederick Curren argues that consent, when properly understood, is the ultimate aphrodisiac. He further argues that some forms of sexuality are subject to prejudice and moral judgment because they are not properly understood.

Dr. Az Hakeem writes that we have seen a meteoric rise in children and adolescents identifying as “trans” or “nonbinary,”  with an 8,000x increase of trans-identifying girls in recent years. As he argues, this is an obvious social contagion, not unlike the goth, punk, and emo fads of past decades. Only this time, it is a fad encouraged by ideologically captured parents who actively push for clinicians to alter their children’s bodies.

Jimmy Alfonso Licon calls attention to a notable but little discussed nonpartisan risk inherent to Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative: the “sorting problem.” Given the immense complexity of the federal budget, it is nearly impossible to distinguish genuine waste from misunderstood but necessary expenses.

Dauv Evans writes about the negative views many Black people hold toward Black atheists in the United States, where being Black is closely connected with being Christian and where Black celebrities deride nonbelievers as “idiots.” Drawing attention to the rareness of nonbelievers in the Black community, he expresses disappointment in the hate-filled and closed-minded ridicule they so often receive.