We have written in the past here about JournoList, the Obama-era mailing list that enabled journalists to collaborate on how ...

You have read the headlines: woman dies in Texas because doctors will not abort the fetus! Horrible Texas abortion ban is killing women! Put on a handmaid’s costume and run screaming into the streets ...

Natural rights restrict government from removing your ability to do certain things. These are negative rights of the “thou shalt not” variety, commanding government to not infringe on your right to ...

After a decade or two of interacting with this world, most people get bitter and cynical. They start to see other people as ...

Power is a property. The vote is a power more than a tangible thing. Each vote makes an outcome more likely, and that power is entrusted in the voter. But nothing guarantees he will not sell it, and ...

Consider that humans live in a world of pretense, defined by categories that we then use to rationalize what we want as part ...

Senses are a different kind of effect: like a conclusion, an effect in the mind related to a cause in the world beyond.

As it turns out, AI does the same thing because it is the logically correct thing to do. Unfortunately it has no idea that ...

Generally, human societies die this way: as soon as people no longer interact directly with nature, they start to blame each other, lose a sense of purpose, and start rationalizing what they want as ...

Crowdism tells us that our problem as a species is not that we are victims of evil manipulators, but that we select those evil manipulators through the committee mentality, which rewards avoiding ...

The Clinton years will be remembered as a watershed for this nation; during that time, we switched from being a nation to a life support system for diversity. Every speech began with “diversity ...