The Cruelties of Coulter
Why Ann Coulter’s vicious, dehumanizing book about immigrants is effective propaganda…
On Being Fair To Social Justice Activists
A long-winded reply to Scott Alexander…
Perhaps David Brooks Should Talk Less And Listen More
Shockingly, the people who most loudly call for empathy and dialogue are the least willing to engage in genuine empathetic dialogue…
The Paradox of the “Problematic”
How do we deal with morally tainted cultural products? C.L.R. James took a simple approach…
A Tale Of Two Atrocities
From Tululché to New Bedford…
Maybe Taxi Drivers Don’t Hate Progress, Maybe They Just Don’t Want To Be Poor
The lives that get “disrupted”…
Don’t Use The Right’s Assumptions To Make The Left’s Arguments
Be careful what you argue: someone just might agree with you…
A Bit More Magic Disappears From The Universe
When we destroy weird, inefficient things, we take wonder and mystery out of the world…