No, You Don’t Have a Disorder, You Have Feelings
When we construe normal feeling as illness, we offer people an understanding of themselves as disordered. This encourages people to be stuck in a limiting narrative.
Best of Areo Magazine
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Art and The Search for Immortality
Art can’t give us immortality, but it can give us something better. It can give us what Roy Batty longed for: more life.
The 100 Million Killed Under Communist Regimes Matter
The death toll under Communist regimes is of incredible magnitude. Yet whenever I attack Communism for being an evil ideology, I get a serious number of rebuttals.
Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
How to Tell if You’re Living in a Patriarchy
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
Stalin, Putin, and the Corruption of History
The history of Soviet totalitarianism is now being rewritten.
Evolutionary Psychology in the Humanities: Shakespeare’s Othello
Othello and Iago represent two enduring behaviours whose conflicts have shaped much of humanity’s theory of mind and moral emotions to the present day.
The Tyranny of Fragility
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
Against the Death Penalty
The state should not assume the right to end the lives of its citizens at will.
Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments
How to effectively counter some perennial arguments against free speech.
Race Is a Spectrum. Sex Is Pretty Damn Binary
Male versus female is one of surprisingly few genuine dichotomies.
The Problem with Utopias
The history of utopian fiction proves that we can’t even imagine a better world.