The Illusion of Free Will
One of the most vexing biological and philosophical problems of recent decades is free will. We must punish violations of the rules—with all manner of sanctions, ranging from mild disapproval…
The Crisis Mentality
Hussein Mansour writes about the way a sense of crisis has become a defining feature of Muslim thought: “When a revolution fails, the conclusion is that the crisis was deeper…
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…