How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
Vincent Harinam and David Kopel
· 11 min read
Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success
There’s no such thing as too many Jews among the “faces of power.”
Daniel Friedman
· 15 min read
What Happened to America’s Soft Power?
What Marc saw as relatively smooth sailing for the CIA’s critical operations during the first two years of the Trump administration is beginning to change.
Art Keller
· 8 min read
Reflections on Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Address
This imbalance between rights and responsibilities is not only restricted to individuals, it is also affecting our governmental, societal, and cultural institutions.
Sergiu Klainerman
· 12 min read
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race
What we need are policies—including trade and immigration policies—that help us carve up the economic pie in a way that sees all workers get their fair share, no matter what their ethnicity.
Jeff Rubin
· 10 min read
Elder Millennial Metalheads: Our Shrinking World of Dark Thoughts and Bad Jobs
We are a generation of smart, strong, caring, conscientious men, full of kinetic energy that I now see dispersed through alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, anxiety, violence, and death.
Matthew Amos
· 8 min read
Chile’s Elites Are Creating Another Latin American Populist Meltdown. Voters Must Stop Them
The main hope for Chile lies with the requirement that voters approve any new constitution.
Axel Kaiser
· 7 min read
The Importance of Blasphemy
Brian Stewart
· 5 min read
The Dead Are Rising—A Review
The Dead are Arising offers similarly interesting insights into Malcolm X’s adolescence and adult life.
Clayton Trutor
· 7 min read
Philosophy Is Being Hijacked by Woke Twitter Mobs
Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
The Real Causes of Human Sex Differences
The prevailing view in the social and behavioral sciences is that human sex differences are typically small in magnitude, largely social in origin, and driven by gender roles (below).
David C. Geary
· 12 min read
PODCAST 117: Lucy Kross Wallace on Her Descent Into (and Escape From) Social-Justice Extremism
Quillette
· 1 min read
The Coming Post-COVID Global Order
The pandemic crisis is rapidly becoming a civilizational crisis.
Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger
· 11 min read
My Own Private Château—Pauline Réage’s ‘Story of O’ Revisited
Our culture makes a well intentioned but dangerous error in taking every thought experiment, every utterance, every representation, every fantasy of sexual expression seriously.
Marilyn Simon
· 15 min read
Not All Identities Are Created Equal
The revival of racial identity to tackle social injustice reawakens an ancient beast.
Razib Khan
· 11 min read