Neither side will mention this — A note from the editor: I recommend this text, although I do not share the author’s political preferences. I admire his inquisitiveness in understanding the historical background of ideologies gaining popularity today. Henryk A. Kowalczyk I’ve been worried about the left lately. As someone who has been active in left-wing…

I feel sick — It was real cold in Denver today. I wasn’t really prepared. I was just planning to go to an interview and help my friend clean out his apartment, so I was wearing a dress shirt and a coat. Around three or four, my friend told me that Food Not Bombs…

Some ideas aren’t worth discussing — This is Corporate Communism. Corporations using their economic power to force their political agendas. They need to go back to the “Customer is King” mentality, not corporations are king. — Marjorie Taylor Greene I first learned about this quote from the Georgia congresswoman in a video by my favorite political…

It’s more than an act. — Would a shark by any other name sing just as sweet? Virtual Youtubers, entertainers who embody a virtual avatar to perform over live stream, have been around for a few years now. It’s not even fair to call them a niche phenomenon anymore. According to Brazilian researcher Rafael Dirques David…

Our republic is being eaten alive by cynicism — I spent the last week canvassing to get out the vote for the American midterm election, and the experience was a bit shocking. Not so much talking to people door to door, where I generally got what I expected. …

Dialing down the temperature doesn’t mean spouting careless anti-trans talking points — This exchange between neuroscientist Sam Harris and trans-tech journalist Ina Fried has been stewing around in my brain for some time now. So, I’ve given in, and I’m going to tear it apart publicly. …

Sometimes, race really is that complicated — There’s a fellow by the name of Sunn m’Cheaux on Youtube who teaches Gullah-Geechee, a creole language made up of varieties of English and Central/West African languages spoken in the southern United States. I am a language nerd, so I started following him, to find that he mostly posts about…

Can our authentic identities and our profiles be reconciled? — Authenticity may be the most popular way to talk about identity, but it’s not the only way. Philosophers Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul D’Ambrosio say there are two other “technologies” for forming identity, one of which has already overtaken authenticity as the dominant technology. First, let’s talk about what authenticity replaced…

In my last article responding to Jordan Peterson’s Conservative Manifesto, I argued that his prescription for a society based in “competence hierarchies” related to innate biological characteristics like IQ provided a clear path of thinking towards eugenics. Recently, he posted an interview with British Conservative Party politician and Olympic rower…