The rise of AI-generated content risks overshadowing original creative works, potentially leading to a market collapse for writers and artists if consumers prefer nostalgia-driven remixes over new expressions, but the enduring human desire for innovation suggests that original art and writing will always have value.
If school choice is the answer to fights over curriculum in K-12 schools, it also needs to be the answer at universities. But culture war supporting libertarians don’t tend to apply the argument that consistently.
Political persuasion versus the urge to political domination.
Many Trump supporters underestimated his intentions during his first term, believing he wouldn’t follow through on his campaign promises, but his second term has revealed the dangers of their misjudgment.
The GOP has become a political movement of con artists conning each other without realizing they’re being conned.
Given Trump’s poor and declining health, we might see the American right dramatically fracture during his second term.
Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?
Is it wrong to have a social media feed primarily of people you agree with?
When echo chambers masquerade as open inquiry.
Republican talent has largely been replaced by amateurs and grifters. That’s a hole the right will have difficulty recovering from.
Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought.
Twitter’s shift under Elon Musk has distorted its role as a cultural touchpoint, misrepresenting the national discourse and leading thought leaders to adopt increasingly unethical perspectives.
Right-wing narratives falsely depict American cities as failing in order to defend traditional values, while urban residents experience thriving, diverse, and inclusive communities.
No matter what you tell yourself, you can’t be a principled person if you’re an asshole.
Silicon Valley’s overconfidence in the imminent arrival of Artificial General Intelligence stems from a combination of limited understanding of the humanities, an insular culture, and a business model that incentivizes exaggerated claims about AI’s capabilities.
Substack is in trouble, and their recent feature releases are evidence of that.
It is all too easy to abandon liberty when its practice inconveniences us.
Conservatism encompasses three distinct forms—personal, social, and political—that should not be conflated with being “on the right,” which refers to an ideological perspective on natural human inequalities.
An examination of the place of admirable friendship in an ethical life.
Social media convinces us our small communities are representative of the whole and tells us we’re more right than we really are.