Real-life experience tells you that homeless people have mental health problems and bring crime, filth, and disorder in their wake. They can also randomly assault you. Many are pedophiles or sexual ...

Social scientists often refer to this sort of animosity as “affective polarization,” meaning that people not only hold ...

Intelligence as measured by IQ tests is the single most effective predictor known of individual performance at school and on ...

Trump has become wise to the Fenian Question and is detaining and deporting illegal Irish migrants. Now we have to realize that the piece of paper, amnesties, birthright citizenship, and duration of ...

Returning your grocery cart releases dopamine in your brain, which makes you feel good. It’s a small task, but it requires ...

Means-over-ends thinking begins with this desire to morally/emotionally exclude certain methods because we fear them, like ...

As the (adapted) saying goes, “everyone wants to be Trad until it’s time to do Trad shit.” I write philosophy of a practical ...

It turns out that we can see this most clearly with AI/LLM, which is shaping us as much as we are shaping it. Specifically, ...

This dominance by appearance is part of Crowdism, which is how human individualists working together adopt a collectivist ...

15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the ...

The resurgence of the r-word is symptomatic of a graver problem — the “apparent death of empathy,” said Adrienne Massanari, ...

Inversion occurs when we ban some methods (killing, drinking) instead of re-orienting toward a goal. If you say that war is ...