Society
- After New Atheism: The case against God was made, belief barely moved, and churches left a gap.
- Activism: Rules for effective activism: match effort to influence, and work with imperfect allies.
- Argue in Writing, Bet on Predictions: Why writing and bets beat a stage debate.
- Cold at the Top: Indifference at the top: traits plus incentives, no excuse.
- Constitutional Republic: Why “republic, not democracy” is a false choice, and what is contested.
- Confederate Monuments: Memorials to a myth, not to history.
- Dealing With Difficult Personalities: Handling people in power who cannot be reasoned with.
- Discourse: A protocol for arguing with reasonable people, and a guide for the rest.
- Elite Rapture: Apocalyptic framing from the very wealthy, and why the framing is the danger.
- Enlightenment Ideals: Reason in the service of flourishing, its four rivals, and the realist objection.
- The Immigration Choice: Tax and legalize the workforce already here, or pay to remove it.
- Israel and Hamas: The legal and humanitarian framings of genocide and proportionality, with sources.
- Libertarianism: Where body sovereignty stops serving people.
- Markets and Capitalism: Tools, not moral oracles; outcomes depend on the rules.
- Mild Leviathan: AI as a volunteered mild Leviathan for self-governance.
- Internet Monetization Model: How attention becomes revenue, and what recommender systems optimize for.
- The Money Exception: Why even skeptics go easy on concentrated wealth, and when to speak up anyway.
- Not Conservatism: Measured by conservative values, the administration is institutional decay.
- Oligarchy: Why the problem is concentrated wealth, not one man, with a ledger of who gains and who pays.
- The Orbán Playbook: Bending institutions by legal means, as in Hungary, and how it can be beaten.
- Owning the Machines: When wages stop paying, ownership must spread; basic income is not enough.
- The Perception Gap: Why heavy news users see the other side as more extreme than it is, and what I did.
- Perception Management: How narratives, not facts, shape mass belief.
- Politics: Reason and Compassion as the real poles, plus three smaller convictions.
- Rights and Remedies: A right you cannot enforce is not a right, and those paths are narrowing.
- Rule of Law: How far the U.S. has slipped, measured by an index and by acts the courts called unlawful.
- Salomon’s House: An order of science explainers, after Bacon, under a four-rule charter.
- Slow by Design: A republic built to cool passions, how virality undoes it, and the remedies I would add.
- Smug Pilots: How engagement media and bickering experts wore down trust, and what experts owe listeners.
- Social Roles: Five role domains everyone holds, and the terms for how roles are assigned and strained.
- Trans Issues: Neither panic on the right nor dogma on the left: rights, evidence, open debate.
- The Two-Front War: Illness in the U.S. means fighting the disease and the bill.
- U.S. Identity Politics: Identity first, policy rationalized afterward, and the way out.
- Viral Truth: What truth can borrow from how lies spread, and what it must not.
- Virtue Signaling: Moral display without action, often unintended, and a test for it.
- Who Opened the Door: What Latinos owe the Black civil-rights movement, and how to repay it.
- Who We Thank: Ballpark honors for the military: deserved, but excessive and selective.
- Whose Problem: Real problems, and why no single donor should own them.
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