Editorials

Calling People "Fascist" Has Been Stupid for More than 100 Years Now

The “fascist” slur was invented to insult moderates instead of literal Nazis.

Feb 19 •

Gender Critics Shouldn't Take a Victory Lap Just Yet

A NYT/Ipsos poll finds that ~80% of Americans disapprove of transgender athletes in women's sports and puberty blockers for minors, but in 1969…

Jan 29 •

The Cultural Hegemony of the United States

The university system and resultant institutions dominate our culture with tactics such as deplatforming and misrepresentation.

Oct 23, 2024 •

Some Researchers Do Not Realize that Moral Convictions against Abortion Exist

These researchers are therefore unable to propose obvious hypotheses about the topics they study.

Oct 13, 2024 •

Rhetoric about People "Who Look Like Me"

A response to admonitions that I do not know what it is like to grow up not seeing people who “look like you.”

Apr 2, 2023 •

Abortion Advocacy is Conservative

To advocate for abortion is to preserve a status quo that has existed for millennia.

Mar 22, 2023 •

Essentialism is a philosophical position that underlies contemporary discourse about race and gender.

Jan 7, 2023 •

The Fallacy of Partisan Demagoguery

Characterizations of partisan factions empower polarized viewpoints at the expense of independent thinkers.

Jun 14, 2022 •

Discussion about Disagreement on the Rationally Speaking Podcast

Two interviews from Rationally Speaking about disagreement are reviewed: John Nerst’s discussion of low resolution abstraction, and Buster Benson’s…

Jun 3, 2022 •

How to Scrutinize a Statistic

You should inquire about its provenance, its scope of inference, its practical significance, and the estimation error associated with it.

Jan 18, 2022 •

The Fallacy of Category-Based Prejudice

Prejudice is more costly, less accurate, and more ambiguous than direct measurement.

Nov 26, 2021 •

Moral Skepticism

Searching for moral knowledge is delusional.

Dec 28, 2020 •

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