Feel-Good Leftist Abstractions Destroy Communities
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So yes, it is undoubtedly true that since the French Revolution, if not before, the political Left has been plagued by an unfortunate tendency to impose unproven... Read more.
The Wheels of Life
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The bicycle is the ultimate freedom machine; cheap, reliable, and largely beyond the ever-creeping reach of regulating authorities. It doesn’t saddle you with... Read more.
How to Repair Our Post-Repentance Culture
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Maybe I’m blind to their existence, but outside the largely narcissistic and comfortably non-personal woke rituals of remorse, I see few institutional pressures... Read more.
Exiles in Our Own Land
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Authoritarians like our current crop have an Achilles’ heel to which they are almost invariably blind. They assume that everyone else views the world as hierarchically... Read more.
We Often Imitate What We Say We Oppose
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“How to struggle for justice without becoming what we claim to despise in our opponents?” That is the question. How well or poorly we as activists and idea-makers... Read more.
To Starve our Feudal Overlords of Attention
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As Covid showed us, an unusually high number of those trotted out to us by our “noble” class as possessing inordinate wisdom are little more than self-interested... Read more.
Lives Unleavened by the Gift of Wonder
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The rational and calculating human mind’s ability to deliver something approaching personal contentment to you has been massively oversold during your lifetime.... Read more.
In Praise of Semantic Warfare
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Could it be that most of us, in fact, are pre-programmed to surrender our agency at the first sign of a canceling putdown or threat of ostracism, however absurd,... Read more.
How Modeling Can Go Terribly Wrong
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The intellectuals bombarded the populace with empirically unproven models of their own making about many things connected with Covid. And when the vast majority... Read more.
The Drumbeat of Trauma-Inducing Events in Our Lives
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If left unaddressed, the top-down trauma our “leadership” class seems bent on serially inflicting upon us leads to widespread psychic numbing and a nation of... Read more.
The Social Meaning of Hortatory Yard Signs
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Growing up in a nice suburb and studying at a brand-name university one can really come to believe that life is inherently well-ordered, and that “doing well”... Read more.
Stuck to Our Own Metaphors
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If there is anything that the Covid phenomenon has shown us, it is that in the third decade of the 21st century, it is precisely our most putatively literate classes... Read more.