The Human Skills AI Can't Replace
Today’s inductive AI can only solve problems in the narrow problem space we predefine.
The Cancelation of Shane Gillis Provides the Mob with Another Win
It’s easy to join a Twitter mob. You take zero risk if the takedown doesn’t work, but you pretend you’re Rosa Parks if it does.
My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Pulled
If upsetting students or staff or the public is a reason for banning speech, all such discussion is at an end.
No One Is Born in ‘The Wrong Body’
The fact is, no child is actually born in the wrong body.
Postmodernism's Dead End
Equally important is that this new definition of usefulness extends to nonhuman nature as well.
Why Has Kamala Harris's Campaign Fizzled?
The logic of a Harris candidacy rests on her coalition-building skills.
PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
Michel Houellebecq: Populism's Prophet
Populism has been unpacked, dissected, defined, and analysed, and the results have all been discouraging.
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
Diet Reporting—the Real Fake News
Experimentation is usually impossible for ethical and practical reasons—subjects cannot be sacrificed and dissected to see the physiological effects of different food regimens.
Confessions of a Social Constructionist
If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic
Understanding America's Cultural and Political Realignment
To understand our politics, we need to understand the cultural values that drive it.
PODCAST 53: Gay Rights Activist Shane Windmeyer on his Changing Attitude to Chick-Fil-A
Europe’s Virtues Will Be Its Undoing
Ever since, all of Europe—the East as well as the West—has carried the burden of Nazi guilt, as others would have us bear the guilt of North American slavery and Jim Crow.