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Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
By the numbers, if the Dems don't turn away from their embrace of socialism, they are doomed [audio version]
Socialism Will Be the Death of the Democrats
By the numbers, if the Dems don't turn away from their embrace of socialism, they are doomed [written version]
If Gun Ownership Is a Right, Trans People Have It Too
History, hypocrisy, and the trans right to bear arms
The Political Machine Never Dies
Pay-to-play, endorsements for sale, and the old-fashioned campaign corruption under all our noses
Marxism is Elitism
Beneath all the sloganeering about liberation, workers, and the people, Marxism has always been a project bent on subjugating the unwashed masses.
Caste in Stone
The culture, complexities, and stubborn persistence of India's caste system
Memory-Hole Archive: Identity Worship and Lived Experience
Part XI of the Memory-Hole Archive
Of Pinpricks and Human Extinction
A review of David Benatar's "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence"
Public Trust Isn't Vanishing. It's Migrating.
Institutional trust may be in free fall, but Americans have just as much trust as ever — they've simply found new places to put it.
Carter Hart and the Kangaroo Court of Public Opinion
The facts can exonerate you in a court of law, but mobs don't care about facts.
The Great White Chief: The Story of America’s Worst Senator (So Far)
And how policy changes in the GOP's Southern strongholds are continuing his ugly legacy.
Trans Activists Cannot Crush 1.3 Billion People. But They Can Start a Conversation.
Writing off all dissenters as irredeemable bigots is a dangerous and disastrous road to go down.
Why Leftists Are So Uniquely Annoying
Or, the subtle art of alienating everyone
Anti-Semitism and the Lessons of History
A conversation with History Impossible's Alexander von Sternberg
Memory-Hole Archive: Safetyism and the Cult of Fragility
Part X of the Memory-Hole Archive
The Culture Wars Come for Sex Research
Right-wing culture warriors claim to be the defenders of children, but all they can spare are thoughts, prayers, and righteous hatred.
The Banality of Transcendence
The most consequential insights can be the easiest to overlook
The Myth of the "Heritage American"
Replacing institutions, the rule of law, and liberal principles with the whims of an in-group is as un-American as it gets.
The Far Left Is the Far Right
The problem with "horseshoe theory" is that it doesn't go far enough.