My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough
Discussions today around Gen Z’s mental health occlude this possibility of a lack of adversity in our daily lives.
Freya India
· 11 min read
Social Media
A collection of 107 posts
The Narrative and Its Discontents
This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.
Jacob Falkovich
· 9 min read
Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence
It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.
Pedro Domingos
· 12 min read
Big Tech and Regulation—A Response to the Quillette Editors
The fallout has been intense and has gripped the professional commentariat.
Allen Farrington
· 7 min read
Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly
In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.
Quillette
· 11 min read
To Expower the People
Expowering is a transitional measure since you cannot fire your way to equity.
Theodore Gioia
· 12 min read
What Is #DisruptTexts?
The disrupters rely on rhetorical devices such as replacing the passive “under-represented” with the active “marginalized,” “erased,” and “excluded.”
Lona Manning
· 9 min read
The Flawed Reasoning of the Techlash and Progressive Movements
But painting the world as a struggle between victims and oppressors leaves little room for a careful discussion of costs and benefits, the unforeseen consequences of intervention, and potential government failure.
Dirk Auer
· 7 min read
Why Do Progressives Support the Unfettered Use of Private Property?
Tech companies are not equipped to rule on messy and complex disputes over truth.
Samuel E. Miller
· 7 min read
Race and Social Panic at Haverford: A Case Study in Educational Dysfunction
Not so long ago, one might have been able to count on the naturally oppositional reflexes of young adults as a counterbalance to this kind of crowdsourced social panic.
Jonathan Kay
· 24 min read
Relearning How to Read in the Age of Social Media
People who don’t actively seek out books or articles inevitably lead more restricted lives because extended prose remains the most effective means of communicating complex ideas.
Joe Nutt
· 8 min read
The Life and Death of Unus Annus
The project provided a unique and occasionally profound experience and a new perspective with which many of its fans had not engaged before—and all that from a YouTube channel!
Nathan Eatwell
· 7 min read
How Availability Cascades are Shaping our Politics
Two components make up an availability cascade: an informational cascade and a reputational cascade.
Vincent Harinam and David Kopel
· 11 min read
Philosophy Is Being Hijacked by Woke Twitter Mobs
Van Leeuwen and Herschbach wrote a statement on Facebook reiterating that the review process had been carried out properly, and declaring, “Efforts to silence unwelcome opinion… are doing a disservice to the community.”
Nathan Cofnas
· 6 min read
Lessons of the Pinker Affair: The Problem with the Academy is False Beliefs, Not Intolerance
The correct response to the cancellers is not simply to say that they should respect free speech. Rather, one must say to them that you are attacking people for stating things which are true, while you are stating things which are false.
Richard Hanania
· 7 min read