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Twitter's Micro-Slavery
The inherent instability of slavery, fear, and dependence necessitate a collapse and reckoning eventually.
Alec Cameron Orrell
· 9 min read
The Rise of the Ungovernables
Why is this happening now? The usual response is to blame it all on the politicians.
Ross Stitt
· 10 min read
The Aziz Ansari Paradox
The Aziz Ansari paradox hurts the feminist movement, and therefore also hurts vulnerable women and girls.
Louise Perry
· 9 min read
The Problem with the Effective Altruism Campaign
This critique by no means denounces meliorism, the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.
Christian O'Connor
· 4 min read
Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism
Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.
Matt Johnson
· 9 min read
Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
Dealing with energy sources that are inherently unreliable, and require large amounts of land, comes at a high economic cost.
Michael Shellenberger
· 10 min read
Confronting a New Threat to Female Athletics
The movement for trans inclusion now begins in youth sports, where many leagues have no restrictions beyond self-identification.
Julian Vigo
· 14 min read
Want to Change the World? First, You Have to Listen to It
In rhyming this off, we’re “raising awareness” about the collective action that good citizens can take in the face of a repellant ideology.
Irshad Manji
· 5 min read
How I was Kicked Out of the Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting
We must stand up to those who have no interest in the discipline of Classics or its survival—who even seek its destruction.
Mary Frances Williams
· 20 min read
Why I'm Suing Twitter
Twitter is violating its own stated rules, and it is doing so as a means to target specific individuals for ideological reasons.
Meghan Murphy
· 10 min read
The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis
A willingness to listen requires us to first recognize that our shared humanity means that we have more in common than that which divides us.
Alexandra Hudson
· 8 min read
The Narcissistic Fracturing of LGBT Literature
The world of the left generally, and of LGBT identity politics specifically, wasn’t always focused on infinite fragmentation within sects.
Nick Comilla
· 10 min read
We Must Defend Free Thought
Scientific and technological progress cannot happen without people thinking freely—so to clamp down on it is to clamp down on progress itself.
Claire Lehmann
· 8 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
Christopher Sabaitis
· 6 min read