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Editor of Iconoclast: Ideas that have Shaped the Culture Wars.

Joined October 2018
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Downright Dangerous Opinions | Peter Boghossian & Lionel Shriver nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1YpKkwomz…
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Australian psychologist Mark Halloran, Ph.D., has published a collection of essays about the current culture war. He's graciously allowed me to publish my chapter, "Postmodernism and the Failure of Moral Triage," on my Substack: boghossian.substack.com/p/po…
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"Most of the young people who are now declaring themselves trans are not trans..." .@HeatherEHeying shares a piece first published in 'Iconclast', an anthology edited by Mark Halloran (@IconoclastWars), PhD, and published by Academica Press in 2022. naturalselections.substack.c…
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A still pertinent interview with @Anthonywodillon in regards to BLM and Aboriginal deaths in custody. troublemag.com/anthony-dillo…
In conversation with @peterboghossian for iconoclast-culturewars.com: 'I will say that there was a lot of truth to the idea that if you can control - this is kind of Orwellian in a sense - if you can control the language, you can control people’s cognitions.'
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In conversation with @peterboghossian on cultural appropriation: 'Some white people had a taco stand (in Portland) and people went crazy because they culturally appropriated Mexican food... I mean that's a fucking derangement.' youtube.com/watch?v=OqzR1Sne…
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In conversation with the indefatigable @GadSaad in regards to nomological networks, gender differences and the replication crisis in psychology. youtube.com/watch?v=it57Cqnd…
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In an essay for Iconoclast, @HeatherEHeying writes: 'Sex is not a product of our minds either. Rather, sex is the product of our entire evolved beings... We exist at the interface with the world in which we live, in which we have evolved for three and a half billion years.'
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In conversation with @peterboghossian for Iconoclast 'The university system has, again as @JonHaidt says, abandoned its telos of truth and turned into an instrument of social change'.
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In an essay for Iconoclast @ProfJennyGraves tries to make evolutionary sense of sex and gender and the genetics of transgenderism. Published this week by @latrobe. latrobe.edu.au/news/articles…
In conversation with @GadSaad for Iconoclast: 'What free speech absolutist means is that I support the right of imbeciles, morons, racists, anti-Semites, and truth negators to engage in the most vile discourse. That’s what free speech absolutism is'. iconoclast-culturewars.com/
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In conversation with @peterboghossian for Iconoclast: 'And so, what we have is, and this is funny that this is actually a postmodern notion in and of itself, like a reality tunnel; we have a funnelling of domains of thought that are untethered to reality'.
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In conversation with @peterboghossian for Iconoclast: 'It’s one of the most dangerous and pernicious ideas we have now: that your immutable characteristics limit or enable you to have access to the truth. And that idea is a social, cognitive and epistemological toxin'.
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