America has done an amazingly bad job dealing with the pandemic. There’s a strange sort of vertigo one feels upon hearing that in South Korea they’re enacting new restrictions because there are a ...

You may have heard feminists accuse people who make blanket statements about people based on their gender of "gender essentialism." But what is gender essentialism, and why is it harmful? The concept, ...

With which statement do you agree more? Statement A: People can behave in ways that seem ambiguous, but the central aspects of their character are clear-cut. Statement B: It is never possible to judge ...

A social category is a collection of people who share an important characteristic—Canadians, evangelical Christians, Olympic medalists, college graduates, gun owners, guitar players. You get the ...

Former Travel + Leisure editor-in-chief Nancy Novogrod and Joan Roca, whose background is in online travel, have launched Essentialist, a bespoke travel-planning company that uses a network of ...

Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to understand gender expression and identity. The Morning Star recently published a couple of articles ...

Anyone who has critiqued, or even dared to question, the ideology of the transgender movement likely has been accused of being a “biological essentialist.” The most recent episode of this in my life ...

Hearing generic language to describe a category of people, such as "boys have short hair," can lead children to endorse a range of other stereotypes about the category, a new study has found. Hearing ...