Culture & Media

How Not to Advocate for Free Speech

Matt Taibbi and the political polarization of free expression

Apr 15 •

Publish and Impoverish

Academic journal publishing has become a minefield of bad incentives, and it affects everyone.

Apr 5 •

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The Emptiness of Being Culturally Religious

Research shows benefits associated with being religious, but only if you're actually religious.

Apr 1 •

The Pessimist’s Reading List

10 books to deprogram the most dismal, dour, doomer

Mar 22 •

LGBT Social Contagion: A Failed Hypothesis

Rumors of young people identifying as LGBT to be trendy have been greatly exaggerated.

Feb 5 •

Who Speaks Truth to the Speakers of Truth to Power?

Sandcastles and the man in the arena.

Jan 29 •

The Grinches of Fox News

The “War on Christmas” has always been bogus, but the political right’s war on the spirit of Christmas is very real.

Dec 22, 2023 •

Religion Is Not the Antidote to “Wokeness”

We can't fight dogmatism with more dogmatism.

Dec 20, 2023 •

Letter to Young Americans

Looking for existential crises in all the wrong places

Nov 24, 2023 •

Living Well Is the Best Activism

Don’t underestimate the power of leading by example.

Nov 17, 2023 •

Believers and atheists can only be truly free together.

Nov 3, 2023 •

Cancel Culture Comes for Anti-Semites

Surging hate, bipartisan hypocrisy, and the philosophy of cancel culture

Oct 30, 2023 •

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