Most people seek to avoid conflict, but assertiveness means accepting conflict and aiming for clarity instead. Those of us ...

What we call “brokenism” and “enshiffication” represent respectively people rationalizing the decline, and people making the decline affordable by cutting corners. At its core the decline however ...

Many contemporary conservatives adopt cope-hope tropes that they hope seem bold enough to attract an audience. One of these is praise of Calvin Coolidge for doing nothing but reducing government, but ...

A realist sees the foundation of reality as rooted in the principles of our understanding of the natural world: physics, biology, economics, mathematics, and the raw data provided by the patterns ...