Leaving Portland
Leaving was a relief but also a loss. There’s plenty to love about Portland.
Michael J. Totten
· 22 min read
Long Read
A collection of 197 posts
The Threat to Academic Freedom: From Anecdotes to Data
The moral community is now self-reproducing. It is also self-radicalising.
Eric Kaufmann
· 24 min read
To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
"I Was Never More Hated Than When I Tried to Be Honest"
Allergic to narrow-mindedness, poor taste, and moral arrogance, Ellison detested any kind of racial essentialism, separatism, and determinism.
Samuel Kronen
· 26 min read
The Question of Affirmative Action: An Interview with Glenn Loury
Education was not equal in 1930 for blacks and whites, nor in 1950, nor in 1970 for that matter.
Michael Sandel and Glenn Loury
· 19 min read
Requiem for a Female Serial Killer—A Review
Wuornos had maintained that all seven victims had become violent and either raped or threatened to rape her, and that she had killed them in self-defense.
Charlotte Allen
· 20 min read
Victimhood or Development?
It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.
My Military Jail-Time in Israel
In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.
Benny Morris
· 20 min read
The Bias that Divides Us
What our society is really suffering from is myside bias: People evaluate evidence, generate evidence, and test hypotheses in a manner biased toward their own prior beliefs, opinions, and attitudes.
Keith E. Stanovich
· 20 min read
Why Is Funny? How America Lost Its Sense of Humor
Jokes entail risk, because in order for them to work, they need to be a bit unsettling, and to get better at telling them we need to be allowed to fail.
Robert Lynch
· 18 min read
The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?
Hatred of the Chinese regime has become so strong and pervasive in the West—especially in the US, where China is seen as its main geopolitical foe—that it creates incentives that allow unsubstantiated allegations to spread largely unchecked.
Philippe Lemoine
· 26 min read
The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs
In any case, the virus eventually reached Huanan Seafood Market, which served as a springboard from which the virus spread to the rest of Wuhan, and eventually across the entire world.
Philippe Lemoine
· 32 min read
The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response
The human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party provides ample evidence of its capacity for repression and cruelty, and therefore ample opportunities for condemnation.
Philippe Lemoine
· 37 min read
The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak
Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.
Philippe Lemoine
· 30 min read
Understanding Totalitarianism
Totalitarian regimes begin in mass movements, but it should be noted that not all mass movements are totalitarian. The American Civil Rights movement was a mass movement and undoubtedly a hugely positive force for urgently needed change.
Brent Holley
· 16 min read