Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

To be an outspoken professor in academia is a very dangerous proposition.

My purity manifests itself in countless ways, including an utter inability to sit idly when exposed to attacks on truth, reason, logic, and/or individual dignity.

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.

All other things equal, advertisements containing cute babies, sexy endorsers, and fear-inducing stimuli are typically attention grabbing and will likely yield greater recall.

The desperate need to belong is perhaps never as great as during adolescence. Advertisers seek to communicate with teenagers by frequently using that powerful appeal.

Memorable people do memorable things. Followers are seldom remembered. The herd mentality is the killer of innovation. When appropriate, be bold in your undertakings.

My attachment to my wedding ring is a powerful symbol of the infinite love that I have for my wife and children.

Most people experience some insecurity regarding one or more of their physical traits.

If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

It is an immeasurable tragedy to spend a sizeable portion of one’s waking hours doing a job that does not excite you nor infuse you with a sense of purpose.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

Few people are as well-situated to speak about the laudable benefits of a humane immigration policy than me.

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

Freedom of religion does not entitle your religion to have a privileged position within the public sphere.

Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

Consumer behaviour is a powerful realm from which to explore our biological heritage.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

Bottom line – cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism.

As an academic, I value the free exchange of ideas.

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.

As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.

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.

Amongst Western intelligentsia, to criticize if not loathe American values is viewed as progressive and liberal, whilst to support brutal and intolerant religious and political ideologies is a hallmark of being enlightened.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

The next time some academics tell you how important ‘diversity’ is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man.

In Unicornia, all people are just as likely to be terrorists. To think otherwise is to be a hateful bigot.

In the land of progressive Unicornia, science is only valuable if it is consistent with ideological dogma. Otherwise it is nothing more than bigoted hate facts.

In short, if your average voter had five key issues in mind, scored each candidate on them, and weighted them in order of importance, it was easy to understand how perfectly reasonable and rational people might have voted for Donald Trump without being deplorable bigots.

If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities — with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole — is a good place to start.

I opened up my rebuttal by explaining that there are only two types of theories: Those that divide the world into two types of theories, and those that do not.

I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology.

Progressives seem to believe that if they say the words “diversity, inclusion, and equity” often enough, all problems will be solved.

When parasitized by such a conspiratorial and delusional mindset, the bikini becomes a sexist tool of the patriarchy whereas the burqa is liberating and freeing since it averts the male gaze.

Incidentally, if you are a non-racist white person who does not appreciate being accused of supporting white supremacy, you undoubtedly suffer from white fragility.

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

Free societies do no recoil and the power of satire. They recognize that all beliefs and ideologies are fair game. Once we delimit what can be satirized, we are no longer living in a free society.

The greater the number of people present, the less likely an individual is to help someone in need because it is easier to rationalize that someone else will do it.

An infinite advertising budget cannot counteract products that are disconnected from our biological heritage.

The problem arises when domains that should be reserved for the intellect are hijacked by feelings.

Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.

Oh, you are a non-binary bisexual chemist? Well this completely changes the atomic numbers of Carbon, Palladium, and Uranium.

E. O. Wilson, the Harvard entomologist and evolutionary biologist, is reputed to have said of socialism: “Great idea. Wrong species.” Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail.

The “us versus them” mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.

Those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome cannot see that for 63 million Americans, voting for Trump was an obviously rational decision.

In the West, the ideological indoctrination is subtler. It is achieved by an ethos of political correctness and best enforced by creating university campuses that lack intellectual diversity. Political correctness is like the sting of the spider wasp. Recall that the afflicted spider is dragged to the wasp’s burrow in a zombie-like state and is subsequently eaten in vivo by the wasp’s offspring.

No other religion has come even remotely close to Islam in inspiring, justifying, or supporting terrorism. And yet, the progressive intelligentsia insist that none of these documented attacks have anything to do with Islam.

Progressives consider it laudable to criticize, mock, or insult all religious beliefs—except for the one untouchable faith. To attack Islam in the West is “Islamophobic,” “racist,” and “bigoted.

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions […] or juicy gossip.

One problem we face today is that consequentialists make a virtue of having emotions cloud our judgments, not only to avoid hurt feelings but because emotion is seen as a sign of authenticity.

Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate.

We are both thinking and feeling animals. The challenge is to know when to activate the cognitive (thinking) versus the affective (feeling) systems.

To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions.

There is no “black mind” or “white mind”, no “white male of knowing”, there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method.

Humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.

Beware of those trying to impress you with confusing word salads.

Any system that is built on a false understanding of human nature is doomed to fail. Building a society where the primary objective is to protect one’s fragile self-esteem from the dangers of competition will only lead to a society of weakness, entitlement, and apathy. Life is necessarily competitive; society is necessarily hierarchical. It does no one any favors to pursue a utopian vision of society where no one’s feelings are hurt.

Anyone who is willing to end a relationship because of a reasoned difference of opinion is not worthy of your friendship.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree, and he turns away. Show him facts or figures, and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic, and he fails to see your point.

Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings.

A successful marriage requires commitment to teamwork.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as the extent to which it is willing to defend its identity.

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.

These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional “victims” who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

In a sense, New Age gurus are akin to postmodernists within academia. They dispense meaningless drivel that masquerades as profound truths whilst in reality it is a mere exercise in obscurantism.

Hope is an elixir of life. It is the engine that propels us forward in our pursuit of countless goals, all of which might otherwise be impossible to undertake if we were bereft of hope.

Science is based on evidence, not politics. In science knowing is always preferable to not knowing.”37 But today in academia, progressive ideology trumps scientific facts.

In a free society, people should have the right to criticize a religion; they should have the right to do so, and of course their criticisms are themselves open to criticism; that is the essence of freedom of speech and thought.

Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the capacity to treasure life and enrich the world in incalculable ways.