I spend a lot of time writing about how the discourse is getting dumber. Ten years ago, anti-vaxxers did not have any role in national politics. Now they’re running HHS. During Obama’s first term, the ...

Unfortunately, I finished feeling overwhelmed by the mediocrity of her ideas and the smallness of her vision. Take this ...

Natural elites, high on openness and intelligence, are attracted to ideologies that are globalist in orientation. They don’t ...

Nearly every political movement that taps into mass passions has a villain, and the most energized portion of the left has in the last few years shifted from blaming the white male patriarchy for the ...

People will often tell me that they like that I don’t care what others think. But this is not true. If Steven Pinker went to X today and said that I was bad at reasoning and my opinions shouldn’t be ...

Every time I point out that conspiracy theories have become central to right-wing discourse, I get responses saying that leftists believe in conspiracy theories too, like structural racism, Critical ...

I debated Jared Taylor on diversity versus white identity on Friday. You can watch the whole thing here. I think Jared stuck to his normal talking points about his preferences and whites needing to ...

For that reason, I thought it would be a good idea to explain why Acemoglu’s most famous book is wrong, and from there critique some of his contemporary political opinions. I honestly hesitated for a ...

Previously, we learned that measurement influences the state of particles, or at least the impact they have on the physical reality we observe. A particle that has one feature, which might be called ...

When police killings of black men were in the headlines during the 2010s and early 2020s, we would often hear about “the talk” that black parents had to have with their sons. Law enforcement was ...