Monday, July 14, 2025
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.
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
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.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Political persuasion versus the urge to political domination.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Threads has significantly more active users than Bluesky, but feels a lot smaller. Why?
Monday, August 26, 2024
Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
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.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
It is all too easy to abandon liberty when its practice inconveniences us.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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.
Thursday, July 20, 2023
An examination of the place of admirable friendship in an ethical life.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
Social media convinces us our small communities are representative of the whole and tells us we’re more right than we really are.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Social rejection often isn’t about your ideas.
Monday, April 24, 2023
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.
Friday, April 7, 2023
We cannot make permanent what is inevitably impermanent, and insisting otherwise brings distress. Better to embrace dynamism and social diversity
Thursday, February 23, 2023
Bigotry is bigotry, even if the bigots are in the majority.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Once rooted in liberalism, libertarianism’s detour through the conservative movement has blunted its radical edge and commitment to principle.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Liberty is dynamic. Conservatism is static. They cannot coexist.
Friday, February 4, 2022
Conservative ideology fundamentally contradicts individual liberty and self-determination.