Beware Cultural Drift
Thoughts on modernity’s monoculture mistake.
Robin Hanson
· 12 min read
culture
A collection of 22 posts
Slavery and Steam
The dangers of forfeiting societal sustainability.
David Foster
· 7 min read
A World of Waste, Stripped of Transcendence: James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ at 100
Few novels become institutions, to have departments rigged up around them, whole constituencies and spheres of scholarship, as works of lifelong study, fascination and confusion. Ulysses, whose publication centenary will be observed on February 2nd, is one such book. Like Marx’s Kapital, Joyce’s door-stopping opus has kept academics
Jared Marcel Pollen
· 13 min read
The Need for a Culture of Achievement
Rand’s style often caused her to be misunderstood and dismissed as some kind of Nietzschean.
Robert Tracinski
· 12 min read
‘We Never Looked Back’
Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.
Ruth R. Wisse
· 15 min read
The Push for Equity in Education Hurts Vulnerable Children the Most
Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.
Russell T. Warne
· 13 min read
Culture, the Humanities, and the Collapse of the Grand Narratives
The socio-economic arguments are based on data indicating that the number of humanities graduates has declined rapidly since the financial crisis in 2008.
Sara Cederberg
· 10 min read
Against Cultural Protectionism
We are living in a time where the old models are changing, where the access to new styles and ideas is greater than ever.
Leo Nicolletto
· 13 min read
What the Right Gets Wrong about Social Justice Culture
Social justice culture is a moral culture, like honor or dignity culture. It’s also a political ideology, like Marxism or liberalism.
Bradley Campbell
· 9 min read
Protecting Our Cultural Commons from Opportunism
The reason why commons-dilemma problems are so hard to solve is that they are the result of perfectly rational behavior.
David C. Rose
· 8 min read
Immigration Is Changing America Less than You Think
The enormous level of immigration to the United States has actually done little to change the overall demographics of the country over the past 20 years.
John A. Litwinski
· 6 min read
Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One
Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.
Brittany Martinez
· 6 min read
Postmodern Philosophy is a Debating Strategy
The Foucauldian method, invoking a hermeneutic of suspicion, works by unveiling or demystifying the relations of power that constitute claims to truth.
Galen Watts
· 7 min read
What Happened to Gawker? An Interview with Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday’s book 'Conspiracy' tells the story of Peter Thiel’s decade-long campaign against Gawker Media.
Stephen Elliott
· 16 min read
Progress and Polytheism: Could an Ethical West Exist Without Christianity?
Christianity’s moral vision was not as revolutionary as a casual student of history might suppose. Nor did it equip Western society with a unique set of virtues that were unknown to the ancient world.
Ben Bassett
· 9 min read