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.

The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to battle such injustices wherever these might occur.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

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

Take off your wedding ring prior to swimming!

If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing.

The Christmas-New Year's holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one's mental health.

Reason and science allow us to properly think about the necessary data that are required in order to answer a given question. This is precisely why the scientific method is the most powerful framework for understanding the world.

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

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

I am always on the lookout for new cafes to hang out at.

Atheists do not seek to violently impose their non-belief onto others. They simply reject all gods inherent to the 10,000 religions known to mankind.

Unlike other animals, all of which are undoubtedly oblivious to their eventual demise, humans are fully aware that their time on Earth is limited. This is a reality that for most individuals is difficult if not impossible to bear.

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.

If one wishes to forgo the protection afforded by secular pluralism, then perhaps Western liberal democracies is not the right place for you to freely exercise your religion.

Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.

While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins.

No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.

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

People have the right to live as equal citizens under the law. They do not have the right to demand that their identities be coddled and celebrated lest they might otherwise get offended.

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.

The explanatory power of evolutionary psychology is limitless!

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

In no culture ever studied have women repeatedly preferred to mate with pear-shaped, low-status, tepid men possessing high-pitched, nasal voices.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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