Social scientists often refer to this sort of animosity as “affective polarization,” meaning that people not only hold ...

Trump has become wise to the Fenian Question and is detaining and deporting illegal Irish migrants. Now we have to realize that the piece of paper, amnesties, birthright citizenship, and duration of ...

Intelligence as measured by IQ tests is the single most effective predictor known of individual performance at school and on ...

As the (adapted) saying goes, “everyone wants to be Trad until it’s time to do Trad shit.” I write philosophy of a practical ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

This dominance by appearance is part of Crowdism, which is how human individualists working together adopt a collectivist ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

Religions never give you proof. You have to take a leap of faith. If you had proof, you would no longer be obeying because ...

For those who enjoy a good lively discussion, I was on the Necropolis AD podcast episode DEATH TO POSEURS this morning ...