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.
Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?
Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought.
Right-wing narratives falsely depict American cities as failing in order to defend traditional values, while urban residents experience thriving, diverse, and inclusive communities.
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.
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.
This weekend I deleted my Twitter account. Which is a small thing, yes, but it’s 16 years of interactions, and 13,000 followers, and it wasn’t an easy decision. Not the least because, in those 16 years, I made real and important friends through Twitter. The platform meant a lot to me. So as my little commemoration, and moment of self-indulgence, I’m reprinting below a very short essay I wrote—originally as a Tweet thread—ages ago when one of those friends, who meant an awful lot to me, died unexpectedly.
Social rejection often isn’t about your ideas.
Perfect virtue is impossible, and moral growth is challenging. But we can improve ourselves in practical ways, even if we can’t achieve the ideal.
We cannot make permanent what is inevitably impermanent, and insisting otherwise brings distress. Better to embrace dynamism and social diversity
Bigotry is bigotry, even if the bigots are in the majority.
Once rooted in liberalism, libertarianism’s detour through the conservative movement has blunted its radical edge and commitment to principle.
Liberty is dynamic. Conservatism is static. They cannot coexist.
Conservative ideology fundamentally contradicts individual liberty and self-determination.