Ilhan Omar’s Serious Question
One of the newest and most diverse(TM) senators from Minnesota has gotten herself in hot water for asking why democrats care tremendously about political and economic interference of the oil,…
One of the newest and most diverse(TM) senators from Minnesota has gotten herself in hot water for asking why democrats care tremendously about political and economic interference of the oil,…
In his excellent book Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb makes the point that Sargon has been making online for a few years: morality is about what you do not what…
I don't think it's possible to exaggerate the importance of this story: FBI agents raided the home of a recognized Department of Justice whistleblower who privately delivered documents pertaining to…
Libertarianism seems to be collapsing. Even those of us who still feel a kind of emotional affinity with the philosophy (I'm sure I'm not alone) have come to admit that…
In 1922, Walter Lippmann coined the idea of “manufactured consent” in his book Public Opinion. The book seems to accept the premise that the social contract was predicated upon consent; that…
The fearless activism of the curiously well-covered David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, has resulted in exactly what he wanted. The school is…
Markus "Count Dankula" Meechan has just been convicted of "grossly offensive" hate speech, for the crime of teaching his girlfriend's dog to respond excitedly to "gas the jews," and to…
Here's a puzzle: what's wrong with Slavoj Zizek's argument for censorship? I like censorship, but what kind of censorship? Not ‘the office, you get imprisoned,’ but censorship which is a…