Difficulty Is Not the Enemy
We mock or bristle when we hear people say that school is too demanding for children and that the solution is to reduce the curriculum. Then reduce it again. And…
The Price of Progress
Curtis Yarvin suggests that it is useful to conceptually distinguish between improvements in our lives brought about by more advanced technologies and improvements brought about by better social organization, better…
Arday’s Intuitive Sociology
The media are full of stories about the fraudster Jason Arday, supposedly the youngest Black professor at Cambridge, who allegedly had to overcome a mental disability, vicious racist attacks, and…
The Decline of Historical Fidelity
It seems that hardly a week, or at least a month, goes by without outrage over the fact that a black actor has been cast in a film as a…
Class ignorance
Class conflict looks markedly different in our time than it did in earlier eras. We still tend to picture organized labor on one side and factory owners on the other,…
Why Israel matters
Yesterday I wrote that cooperation with Israel is critically important to maintaining American military power, and that prompted some surprise. There is, after all, a widespread notion in public discourse…