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The Economic Illiteracy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

It is hard to emphasize how chillingly inept this remark is, especially for someone with a degree in economics.

Jonathan Church

22 Mar 2019 · 10 min read

How a Fake Scandal Took Down a Brazilian Fashion Editor

Addressing Brazil’s legacy of racism is surely one of my country’s most urgent moral priorities.

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

19 Mar 2019 · 7 min read

News, Pre-News, Fake News, and Statistics

For those of us engaged in showing young people how the media are supposed to work, there is no escaping the sturm und drang over fake news.

Steve Salerno

17 Mar 2019 · 11 min read

Marx was an acute social analyst whose insights have appeared in novel places. Even conservative and pro-capitalist figures—from Max Weber to Joseph Schumpeter—have at times grudgingly conceded the accuracy of his analysis on many points of importance.

Matt McManus

17 Mar 2019 · 10 min read

After Christchurch, Remember the Victims, But Resist the Urge to Blame

The best we can do in the short-term is to return again and again to the better angels of our nature and try to keep these horrific events in perspective.

Claire Lehmann

16 Mar 2019 · 5 min read

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

We know enough to understand that we should be taking serious action. The fact that the only groups advocating action at the moment are demanding questionable strategies doesn’t change that.

Mallen Baker

16 Mar 2019 · 13 min read

Old Masters Remix: A review of 'Life Death Rebirth', the Michaelangelo/Bill Viola exhibition at the Royal Academy

There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.

Jacob Willer

14 Mar 2019 · 12 min read

What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality?

Rand and her largely philosophical economic views have been consigned to history as an interesting relic of sorts—a compelling, well-articulated fantasy that has no basis in reality.

Cameron Hendy

14 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Why Elites Dislike Standardized Testing

It is absolutely true that the SAT is the reason this scandal occurred.

Daniel Friedman

13 Mar 2019 · 9 min read

The Folly of Disappearing Art and Culture

Leaving gaps of understanding will not help future generations understand our time, and it will not assist students of history in getting a clean grasp of what happened or why.

Libby Emmons

13 Mar 2019 · 7 min read

Paul Manafort and Systemic Bias

Proffering individual/extreme cases like those of Manafort or Turner and weaving them into broad system-wide narratives is not only epistemologically unsound, it is also needlessly incendiary and tactically ill advised.

Joshua Hunter

13 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

Gender’s Journey from Sex to Psychology: A Brief History

“What is a woman?” What should be an easy question for a movement organized around the rights of women, has instead become a real brain-buster.

Tomas Bogardus

13 Mar 2019 · 19 min read

Joe Rogan is the Walter Cronkite of Our Era

Our faith in a cadre of well-trained media professionals, able to set aside their biases to report on and analyze the big stories of our age, hasn’t just eroded.

Konstantin Kisin

12 Mar 2019 · 5 min read

Down the Rabbit Hole of Political Intolerance in Silicon Valley

I took it as a good sign that by the time I got back to our family brunch all I could talk about was what I’d read about this kid (Palmer Luckey) and his incredible company (Oculus).

Blake J. Harris and Clay Routledge

12 Mar 2019 · 10 min read