Mu Perspectives
Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members and Staff Writers in blog format. These essays do not represent the collective policies or positions of Mu, which are best summarized by our principles here, and elsewhere on our site.
Our lead authors: Brian Ribbon, Jim Burton, Percy Shelley, Tommaso Battista.
Mu Lowdown article by Dan Finkelstein.
50 million children. Left unattended with millions of males who pose well over 3-4x the normal risk for child sexual offending among men. It's the one thing we DIDN'T want to happen.
But every day, America's usually hyper-vigilant parents are willingly sending their kids to public schools, where these superpredators are lurking in the shadows.
The problem is hardly acknowledged, but numbers don't lie! Statistics have backed this up across multiple types of child sexual offending. Boys aged 12-17 are far more likely to offend against a child, and be prosecuted for it, than any other age group. In other words, more li...
Jim Burton
Last week, I found and shared an article by Scott Yenor for First Things, a long-running Christian-Conservative journal out of America. Yenor is a Lutheran; he is also a member of a “secretive, men-only Christian Nationalist organization”, yet much of his retelling of gay history and respectability politics was surprisingly agreeable and uncannily accurate. It was almost as if the married father of five had been a fly on the wall, during this entire episode of militant fa...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
If you have been anything like tuned in to the Twitter/Fandom "age-gap discourse" or "Epstein saga" on social media during the last 10 years, you might have become famili...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
As I detailed in my previous Lowdown article, America has a strange fixation with punishing individuals for exhibiting what it considers to be unusual sexual proclivities. Often, this punishment follows many decades after an offender has served their sentence. The state also turns a blind-eye to registry-assisted murders, which are are now so common, another has transpired since I wrote my article last month. But this hysteria has also seemingly taken a hold of American parents who seek to punish their own...