Matt Thornton argues that traditional martial arts do more harm than good when they do not acknowledge that they don’t work for purposes of self-defense, because if our beliefs about reality don’t correspond to reality, the end result will be painful at best or fatal at worst.

Emma Muniz discusses her experience at the inaugural Dissident Dialogues, which she found to be an inspiring, eye-opening event, and describes the ways in which it has been grossly misrepresented by one sneering critic.

At a time when Christian Nationalism is enjoying a resurgence in the United States, Ronald A. Lindsay reminds that secularism is the only path forward for ensuring everyone’s rights are protected, whether religious or nonreligious.

Josie A. and Dina S., two mothers who founded the Substack Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans, share their personal stories and the reasons they—and so many others—are speaking out against the harms of gender ideology and pediatric gender medicine.

A descendant of at least one enslaver, Jennifer Richmond talks about the way she thinks about her family’s past and calls on all Americans to acknowledge their common history and ancestry.

Supernatural and paranormal claims that challenge established science can teach us a lot about the nature of science, says Taner Edis. As students in his “Weird Science” class learn, what we get wrong about how the world works is as interesting as what we get right.