Archive

• The Ambiguity of "Growth"June 24, 2026
• American History as Fandom LoreMay 26, 2026
• Out Now: Liberalism's Inner LifeMay 18, 2026
• My New Project: The Inner Life of Liberalism PodcastMay 17, 2026
• The Thing About Griping About BlueskyMay 13, 2026
• Don't Harm Your Enemies. Make Them Less Harmful.May 11, 2026
• What the Ancients Knew About Posting WellMay 08, 2026
• Two Helpful Essays Illuminating Liberal PracticeMay 07, 2026
• The Ethics of Not Being OffendedApril 21, 2026
• The Kids Aren’t Into Retro Tech Because of Surveillance CapitalismApril 18, 2026
• ReImagining Liberty Ends (And What's to Come)April 05, 2026
• Who Is AI Music For?March 26, 2026
• The Inner Life of LiberalismMarch 20, 2026
• Argumentation and Illumination: Two Ways Philosophy WorksMarch 14, 2026
• ReImagining Liberty 098: The Practice and Inner Life of Liberalism (w/ Jason Canon)March 11, 2026
• If You’ve Only Ever Played D&D, You’re Missing OutFebruary 11, 2026
• The Faux-Sophistication of Doomer DespairFebruary 04, 2026
• Trump is Governing a Country that Doesn't Exist—And Destroying One That DoesJanuary 27, 2026
• The Regime Has No Defense Against a Good NeighborJanuary 25, 2026
• ReImagining Liberty is taking a short breakJanuary 22, 2026
• What Pete Hegseth’s Kettlebell Swings Tell Us About MAGA IdeologyJanuary 12, 2026
• My Favorite Movie of 2025December 24, 2025
• ReImagining Liberty 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)December 23, 2025
• You Can't Escape the AlgorithmDecember 17, 2025
• Spending Time with Spinal Tap (Again)December 15, 2025
• ReImagining Liberty 095: Adam Gurri on Opposition Meda versus Complicit MediaDecember 12, 2025
• MAGA is an Auto-Humiliation MovementDecember 05, 2025
• The End of the Showman PresidencyDecember 02, 2025
• The Answer to Student AI Writing Slop is Authorial VoiceNovember 26, 2025
• ReImagining Liberty 094: A New American ReconstructionNovember 24, 2025
• Why Elites Believe in Racial IQ Differences and Evolutionary PsychNovember 11, 2025
• The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political RealignmentNovember 07, 2025
• Most Americans Aren’t Fascists, and That’s a Big Problem for the GOPNovember 06, 2025
• The Anti-Anti-Trans ElectionNovember 05, 2025
• Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social MediaOctober 31, 2025
• What It Means to View Ethics as a PracticeOctober 24, 2025
• No Kings and Letting Ourselves HopeOctober 19, 2025
• You Haven’t Been Canceled. You’re Just Unlikable.October 11, 2025
• If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating?October 06, 2025
• Two Kinds of LibertariansOctober 04, 2025
• Elite Complicity in the Rise of FascismOctober 03, 2025
• How to Be in a World on FireOctober 02, 2025
• Trumpism and the Status Anxiety of AbusersAugust 20, 2025
• Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model CollapseAugust 06, 2025
• Roy Cooper, Prayer, and the Folly of Anti-Religious CollectivismJuly 29, 2025
• Boys Are Falling Behind Girls Because Girls Aren't Being Held BackJuly 26, 2025
• Silicon Valley’s “996” Is About Power, not ProductivityJuly 23, 2025
• AI and the Threat of Nostalgia CultureJuly 14, 2025
• An Inconsistent Approach to Viewpoint DiversityJuly 08, 2025
• If You Want to Win Political Arguments, Stop Being an AssholeJune 30, 2025
• Liberalism, Virtue, and the Crisis of Young MenMay 06, 2025
• Fight Now, Hope AlwaysMarch 17, 2025
• Trump Promised Disaster. His Supporters Didn’t Believe Him.March 05, 2025
• Reign of the Competency CosplayersFebruary 26, 2025
• The GOP is now just grifters grifting each otherFebruary 24, 2025
• Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" MonetizationFebruary 12, 2025
• Why Reasonable Doubt Matters (and Why You Should Serve on a Jury)January 24, 2025
• The Emperor's New Annexations: Journalism and the Normalization of NonsenseJanuary 09, 2025
• Bad Policy Comes from Confusing "Complexity" and "Complication"January 08, 2025
• The Politics of "Unbiased" Conservative Search EnginesDecember 18, 2024
• Politics as a Tool: Shaping Society for GoodDecember 16, 2024
• The Limits of AI Learning: Why Drilling Down Can Lead You AstrayDecember 13, 2024
• The Shaky Future of Trump's Personality CultDecember 09, 2024
• Twitter and the Confusion of Medium and MessageDecember 04, 2024
• Why, Despite the Numbers, Bluesky Feels Bigger than ThreadsNovember 24, 2024
• It's Okay if Your Social Media Platform is a BubbleNovember 18, 2024
• Small Reasons for HopeNovember 07, 2024
• What Do We Do Now?November 06, 2024
• Don't Turn AwayNovember 06, 2024
• The Staggering Promise of AI TutorsNovember 05, 2024
• Representation in Video Games and Movies is Not "Politics"November 04, 2024
• The Basic Case for LiberalismNovember 01, 2024
• The Quillette EffectOctober 30, 2024
• The GOP's Competence GapOctober 30, 2024
• Barriers in the Way of an Ethical LifeOctober 29, 2024
• AI and Theft: A Thought ExperimentOctober 29, 2024
• Actually, Trump Would Be Terrible for the EconomyOctober 29, 2024
• A Rorschach Test for the State of American Free SpeechOctober 29, 2024
• A Politics of HarmlessnessOctober 29, 2024
• “Social Liberalization” in Opposition to “Social Conservatism”October 28, 2024
• History's Social Conservatives Were Always Wrong. So are Today's.October 21, 2024
• What happens if Trump loses?October 18, 2024
• The Elite Protect Their OwnOctober 15, 2024
• In Politics, Don’t Aim to “Win,” but Rather “Win Over”October 04, 2024
• The Innsmouth Immigrant Crimewave the Democrat Party is Hiding from YouSeptember 10, 2024
• The Verge’s “Failure” is a Win for Everyone: Talent Networks as NetworksAugust 29, 2024
• Twitter/X as a Bubble for Bad EthicsAugust 20, 2024
• The Misuse of MeritocracyAugust 19, 2024
• How Demanding is Self-Authorship?August 19, 2024
• Why It Works to Call Them WeirdJuly 30, 2024
• Why the Right Lies About CitiesJuly 15, 2024
• The False Equivalence TrapJuly 08, 2024
• What is Ethics?July 04, 2024
• The Politics of Broken Values and Warped PerspectivesJuly 02, 2024
• The Worst Argument in PoliticsJune 21, 2024
• David Boaz: Liberty's North StarJune 01, 2024
• Four Bad Arguments Against AIMay 15, 2024
• The Liberal Identity CrisisMay 10, 2024
• The Necessary Virtue of Not Being an AssholeMarch 27, 2024
• Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative AbilitiesMarch 17, 2024
• Why AI is the New Sliced BreadMarch 07, 2024
• Against a Life of ModerationFebruary 28, 2024
• Substack Doesn't Want You to LeaveFebruary 27, 2024
• How to Talk Yourself into Defending NonsenseFebruary 25, 2024
• Your Philosophy Might Be True — But Not for the Reasons You ThinkFebruary 20, 2024
• Scott Adams, "Scientific" Misogyny, and Roland Barthes's MythologyJanuary 28, 2024
• Political Optimism in 2024January 22, 2024
• How LEGO Can Teach Us About Meaning In Liberal SocietiesJanuary 20, 2024
• A Conflict of VisionsJanuary 15, 2024
• Living Well Means Recognizing Three Facts of Our ExistenceJanuary 12, 2024
• This is the Good LifeJanuary 05, 2024
• The Challenge of Committing to Liberty—and Meaning ItOctober 25, 2023
• Three Kinds of ConservativesOctober 18, 2023
• Just One Fewer God?August 29, 2023
• Surround Yourself With Those Who Are Admirable, and Distance Yourself From Those Who Aren’t.July 20, 2023
• How Social Media Tricks our Brains—and Destroys our PoliticsJune 15, 2023
• Speaking Ill of the DeadJune 08, 2023
• The Limits of ReasonJune 06, 2023
• (Anti-)Wokeism as a Rorschach TestMay 23, 2023
• A Twitter EulogyMay 07, 2023
• A Crash Course in Cultivating Liberal VirtuesApril 24, 2023
• Social Conservatism is SufferingApril 07, 2023
• No, Midjourney (and other AI) Is Not Stealing Your WorkMarch 31, 2023
• Goodwill, Sympathetic Joy, and Liberalism's FoundationsMarch 21, 2023
• Why Do Conservatives Keep Hyper-Sexualizing Men in Dresses?March 06, 2023
• Liberalism and Sympathetic JoyMarch 02, 2023
• If Your Faith Makes You a Bigot, It's Time to Question Your FaithFebruary 27, 2023
• Hate Can Be MainstreamFebruary 23, 2023
• The Ideology of Hang-UpsFebruary 18, 2023
• The Drabness of Conservative PhilosophyFebruary 16, 2023
• How the Right Distorted LibertarianismMay 11, 2022
• ReImagining Liberty 002: "Does Political Liberty Require Social Liberalism?"April 06, 2022
• ReImagining Liberty PodcastMarch 23, 2022
• ReImagining Liberty 001: How To Be a Better Advocate for LibertyMarch 23, 2022
• Liberty Upsets Patterns—and ConservatismFebruary 04, 2022
• The American Right Never Really Loved FreedomFebruary 04, 2022
• Why Josh Hawley Hates Your FreedomFebruary 04, 2022
• The Last Jedi Betrays the Original Trilogy and its HeroesDecember 16, 2017