Why Mind Viruses Are Real Comparing other people’s beliefs to pathogens can be a cheap way of discrediting them, but the idea of “mind viruses” still has real merit. Maarten Boudry / Steije Hofhuis 11 Nov 2024 · 13 min read
Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities The Academic Boycott of Israel Is Selective, Unfair and Counterproductive. Sign Our Open Letter Below. Maarten Boudry 10 Jun 2024 · 7 min read
Damned in Amsterdam: A Bizarre Deplatforming We wanted to give a talk on how ideological bias hampers science—and were disinvited because of our politics. Jerry A. Coyne / Maarten Boudry 4 Jun 2024 · 9 min read
Are Climate Doomers for Real? Activists of all stripes will continue to preach that the end of the world is nigh, but that doesn’t mean that we should take them seriously. Maarten Boudry 18 Mar 2024 · 14 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing? Maarten Boudry 26 Jan 2024 · 16 min read
Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found. Maarten Boudry 7 Nov 2023 · 8 min read
Left is Not Woke: An Interview with Susan Neiman In undermining universalism and moral progress, "wokeism" is inherently reactionary. Maarten Boudry 28 May 2023 · 14 min read
Why Environmentalists Pose a Bigger Obstacle to Effective Climate Policy than Denialists The opposition to nuclear energy is not the only way in which mainstream environmentalists have, with the best of intentions, hurt the cause of climate action. Maarten Boudry 27 Jan 2022 · 10 min read
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity. Maarten Boudry 2 Jan 2020 · 13 min read
Four Flavors of Doom: A Taxonomy of Contemporary Pessimism Pessimism is not just factually wrong, it is also harmful because it undermines our confidence in our ability to bring about further progress. Maarten Boudry 26 Jun 2019 · 10 min read
"Liberals Have Compromised on Their Own Values": An Interview with Ali A. Rizvi Europeans challenged their own religion during the Enlightenment, and we’re all benefiting from their efforts today. But when non-Europeans want to do the same, it’s ‘Islamophobia’? Maarten Boudry / Ali A. Rizvi 28 Jul 2018 · 17 min read
