In Defense of My Work Critical of Jordan Peterson
The Left - “The irony of this exchange is it has only reinforced my opinion that Peterson’s political rhetoric often has a stultifying impact on sincere intellectual debates.“ 3/28/2020
The Left - “The irony of this exchange is it has only reinforced my opinion that Peterson’s political rhetoric often has a stultifying impact on sincere intellectual debates.“ 3/28/2020When We Imbue the Stock Market with Religious Properties
The Left - “These things seem all too familiar when thinking about a somewhat abstract entity with arguably outsized power over billions of people’s lives when—on a whim—it decides to violently go ‘up’ or ‘down.'” 3/27/2020
The Left - “These things seem all too familiar when thinking about a somewhat abstract entity with arguably outsized power over billions of people’s lives when—on a whim—it decides to violently go ‘up’ or ‘down.'” 3/27/2020In Reply to Ben Burgis: Capitalism, Socialism, and Marx
The Center - “…one can go into business with the long-term goal of instituting a worker co-op. But the first and most fundamental aim is to supply the market with something consumers want, in as profitable a way as possible.” 3/26/2020
The Center - “…one can go into business with the long-term goal of instituting a worker co-op. But the first and most fundamental aim is to supply the market with something consumers want, in as profitable a way as possible.” 3/26/2020Nietzsche and Godless Post-Modernity
The Left - “All of this culminated in the works of Nietzsche, who rejected the ontological and moral truths of monotheism, while retaining their stress on individualism.” 3/25/2020
The Left - “All of this culminated in the works of Nietzsche, who rejected the ontological and moral truths of monotheism, while retaining their stress on individualism.” 3/25/2020Balance Is Needed in the Fight Against the Coronavirus
The Center - “Since there is no vaccine coming anytime soon, the only way to properly handle this pandemic at this time is to allow the population to develop natural immunity to it in a controlled manner that avoids overloading the healthcare system.” 3/24/2020
The Center - “Since there is no vaccine coming anytime soon, the only way to properly handle this pandemic at this time is to allow the population to develop natural immunity to it in a controlled manner that avoids overloading the healthcare system.” 3/24/2020Robin DiAngelo Is Correct about the Psychic Weight of Race
The Center - “Although one empirical study indicates that whiteness may not be as invisible to white people as is assumed, DiAngelo is not widely off the mark about the psychological advantages of being white.” 3/24/2020
The Center - “Although one empirical study indicates that whiteness may not be as invisible to white people as is assumed, DiAngelo is not widely off the mark about the psychological advantages of being white.” 3/24/2020Margaret Thatcher, Libertarianism, and the Etherization of the Single Tax
The Center - “Margaret Thatcher was a self-described libertarian from that era. She did something quite different with the single tax problem; she altered the class structure of the country.” 3/23/2020
The Center - “Margaret Thatcher was a self-described libertarian from that era. She did something quite different with the single tax problem; she altered the class structure of the country.” 3/23/2020Where Social Justice Activists Persuade Me—and Where They Don’t
The Center - “What follows are examples of topics where SJ/DEI activists have persuaded me, where they haven’t, and where they have led me to fresh, if heterodox, insights.” 3/20/2020
The Center - “What follows are examples of topics where SJ/DEI activists have persuaded me, where they haven’t, and where they have led me to fresh, if heterodox, insights.” 3/20/2020Erdoğan and Taking Advantage of Europe’s “Pathological Altruism”
The Right - “For them, the feelings of guilt over Europe’s past seemed to require inviting in the world to redeem Europe of its sins. Erdoğan is playing on this fear by referring to the Greeks as Nazis, attempting to destabilize the collective psyche of the European leadership.” 3/19/2020
The Right - “For them, the feelings of guilt over Europe’s past seemed to require inviting in the world to redeem Europe of its sins. Erdoğan is playing on this fear by referring to the Greeks as Nazis, attempting to destabilize the collective psyche of the European leadership.” 3/19/2020Three Lessons from Nine Years of Conflict in Syria
The Center - “However much Americans and their leaders may want to turn away from wars and atrocities geographically far away, sooner or later they will be impacted by them, usually in a jarring and harmful way.” 3/18/2020
The Center - “However much Americans and their leaders may want to turn away from wars and atrocities geographically far away, sooner or later they will be impacted by them, usually in a jarring and harmful way.” 3/18/2020The Coronavirus: Exacerbated by Cultural Pathology
The Center - “Make no mistake; we are in a war, and wars tend to be easier to win when it is generally acknowledged that they are happening.” 3/17/2020
The Center - “Make no mistake; we are in a war, and wars tend to be easier to win when it is generally acknowledged that they are happening.” 3/17/2020The Critics of “Social Justice,” from Jonah Goldberg to Jordan Peterson
The Left - “The conservative critiques of social justice are, therefore, wrong on two different fronts.” 3/17/2020
The Left - “The conservative critiques of social justice are, therefore, wrong on two different fronts.” 3/17/2020Going Deeper Than a Famous Quotation or Two
The Center - “By inviting further exploration of a quotation’s origin, we might re-discover great and complicated thinkers, who, it turns out, have far more to offer than a single phrase.” 3/16/2020
The Center - “By inviting further exploration of a quotation’s origin, we might re-discover great and complicated thinkers, who, it turns out, have far more to offer than a single phrase.” 3/16/2020Hannah Arendt’s Concept of “Impotent Bigness”
The Left - “Impotent bigness uses empty violence to lash out against the vulnerable to compensate for its own utter inability to change the world in any meaningful way. “ 3/16/2020
The Left - “Impotent bigness uses empty violence to lash out against the vulnerable to compensate for its own utter inability to change the world in any meaningful way. “ 3/16/2020At the Border with Reality: the Coronavirus in Italy and Memes
The Left - “Italy, the first European country to close its links with China, also became the first nation in Europe in terms of the numbers infected. With this development came the tragic counterbalance of being transformed in one fell swoop from repellers to rejected.” 3/14/2020
The Left - “Italy, the first European country to close its links with China, also became the first nation in Europe in terms of the numbers infected. With this development came the tragic counterbalance of being transformed in one fell swoop from repellers to rejected.” 3/14/2020Why Millennials Are Angry
The Left - “Millennials occupy the rather strange position of being both an angry and apathetic generation.” 3/12/2020
The Left - “Millennials occupy the rather strange position of being both an angry and apathetic generation.” 3/12/2020