First of All… You may have heard someone saying, “gender is a social construct.” Usually, it has a “First of all,” in front of it, as some sort of preparation for the gravity with which this declaration should be received. That itself lends credence to the parallels between what WinstonContinue Reading
You may have noticed people where you’re employed adding pronouns to their email signature. If you’re unsure of what I’m referring to, it’d be something like: Sincerely,Thomas (he/she/they/them…) The incidence of this occurring where I work is slowly increasing. As it does, I wonder if it will ever be theContinue Reading
I’m going to avoid any puns around backfiring when discussing Alyssa Milano’s recent debacle with buying a Volkswagen and decrying Tesla and Elon Musk. Except for maybe this cheap title. But it was spectacular. As celebrities decide how to publicly announce their distaste with Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk, Ms.Continue Reading
As independent journalists like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss release Substack pieces and Twitter threads on the Twitter Files, some may expect a type of reckoning. I mean, the evidence for numerous things we should be upset about is overwhelming. All of the complaints from self-described conservatives that were beingContinue Reading
It all started with a paper published in 2010 that asks if our ideas about the nature of human psychology are correct. Is there a consistent human psychology across cultures? Seeing as how the population from which we pull our data is largely Western educated undergraduate students, we should expandContinue Reading
Fossil Future, by Alex Epstein: A Review What is your moral goal when discussing climate? In this review, I provide a summary of what I thought were the major conceptual points made by the author, and then some further details on those points. Any discussion of the technical, scientific dataContinue Reading
Russian Prisoners of War in Ukraine What Does History Tell Us Will Be Their Fate? As videos of Russian soldiers captured by the Ukrainian army start to surface, I am wondering what will happen to these now disillusioned young men. Many of them are disillusioned because they were lied toContinue Reading
Let’s Cancel Our Parents Along with Joe Rogan Retroactively punishing people for acts committed when those acts were accepted social norms is a recipe eternal persecution. Is it ok to punish people today for acts committed at a time when those acts were socially acceptable? My mother spanked me. HerContinue Reading
