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Bob Goodin giving a presentation. He wears glasses and a grey jumper.

Talking Philosophy with Bob Goodin

The case against retweets, what’s wrong with the War on Terror, equality in light of difference, and more.

11 Jul 2024 · 8 min read

A freckly young man with blue eyes and blonde hair holds his hand to his face and looks sad.

In Praise of Negativity Bias

It’s the things and people that offer pushback that make personal achievement possible and meaningful. It’s the knots that drive us to comb.

Iona Italia

1 Jul 2024 · 5 min read

Razib Khan, Robin Hanson, and Eliezer Yudkowsky. Background image is the Lighthaven conference venue.

In Defence of Manifest 2024

The Guardian’s reporting on a gathering of heterodox thinkers is truly lamentable journalism.

Theo Jaffee

19 Jun 2024 · 8 min read

A still image of Judith Butler speaking. An LGBTIQ flag in the background.

Double Standards in the Gender Debate

Butler’s latest book is leftist political propaganda masquerading as the dispassionate work of an academic.

Holly Lawford-Smith

12 Apr 2024 · 13 min read

A child holding a world globe in front of them.

Beware Cultural Drift

Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.

Robin Hanson

11 Apr 2024 · 12 min read

The Metamodern Shift in the Culture Wars

Metamodernism conveys the experience of living in a world in which we feel comfortable oscillating between different perspectives.

Peter Clarke

20 Mar 2024 · 6 min read

Not Everyone Who Disagrees with You Is An ‘Uncle Tom’

No one has an obligation to express, or refrain from expressing, a particular view, merely because they are part of a minority group.

Holly Lawford-Smith

4 Mar 2024 · 11 min read

Motorpsycho Nightmare

Robert Pirsig’s insufferable cult novel about philosophy and bike maintenance turns 50.

Kevin Mims

20 Feb 2024 · 18 min read

Beware the Little Lambs

Nietzsche warned us about the dangers of defining our values in opposition to something else.

Ben Turtel

15 Feb 2024 · 7 min read

Meritocracy and Its Discontents

Meritocratic reformers claimed that they wanted equality. But instead they sought to replace the aristocracy of birth with an aristocracy of ability.

J. Michael Yarros

8 Feb 2024 · 13 min read

Reviewing Bronze Age Pervert's New Book: Quillette Cetera Episode 27

A conversation with Quillette writer Oliver Traldi.

Zoe Booth

7 Jan 2024 · 1 min read

The Heckler’s Veto and the Right to Free Association

It's not just a matter of weighing up one group’s free speech against another group’s counter-speech. It’s also about one group’s freedom of association being impeded.

Holly Lawford-Smith

27 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

Humanism and Its Discontents

Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes.

Robert Huddleston

16 Nov 2023 · 10 min read

Trans Identity and the Right to Exist

This is substance metaphysics for the twenty-first century.

Holly Lawford-Smith

6 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

The Insidious Lie That We Can’t Understand Each Other

And a guide for how to productively push back against the identity trap.

Yascha Mounk

4 Oct 2023 · 16 min read