Peter H. Schwartz: The assault of ‘natural law’ morality on transgender people
When I was in college, an art history professor at my school transitioned. This was in the late 1970s, so one might think that this was a big deal for...
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Peter H. Schwartz: Is masculinity ‘endangered’? Are schools to blame? What the evidence actually shows.
That men are an "endangered species" has in recent years become a trope of the culture wars fought on the battlegrounds of gender and identity. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, Ben...
Peter H. Schwartz: The dark undertones of conservative Peter Thiel’s growing political donations
Since 1997, billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and conservative political activist Peter Thiel has donated tens of millions of dollars to political candidates and causes in U.S. elections, the nonpartisan nonprofit...
Peter H. Schwartz: Antonin Scalia and the uncertain future of legal conservatism
During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that "we are all originalists." In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague...
Peter H. Schwartz: Making the case for lowercase: Why racial descriptors don’t need to be capitalized
In 2020, the reassessment of race relations in the U.S. produced an orthographic kerfuffle about whether and how to capitalize accepted terms for racial, ethnic and gender-defined groups. Fissures opened...