Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.

Needless to say, I fully support the legal codes that are meant to protect individuals from discrimination.

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

Evolutionary psychology offers a parsimonious framework for understanding which domains are likely to yield sex differences and, if so, in which direction.

Regrettably, many religious traditions exacerbate our innate proclivity to divide the world into two clearly demarcated camps, and in doing so, this fans the flames of intolerance and hate.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

To the uninitiated, the Hasidim constitute a rather homogeneous sect of orthodox Jewry, but this is far from being true.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

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.

The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically.

There is nothing offensive about the word 'obese.' It is a descriptor of a person's weight.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

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

Western societies in general and universities in particular have not always been immune from institutional sexism. This is incontestable.

Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity.

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

There are justifiable case-by-case situations wherein an educator might exhibit targeted sensitivity to a student's unique circumstances. This is humane and laudable. In most instances though, trigger warnings are not a manifestation of justified empathy but are symptomatic of an ailing culture.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

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

What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business.

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.

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.

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

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