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Americans don’t like extremists

The gym bros were right all along

AI existential risk is the new “climate crisis”

The strange case of J.K. Rowling

You should send your kids to work

Discover vs defend mode

How I'm thinking about AI

Why write about politics?

If "everything is art" then nothing is

The socialist utopia that lasted two years

The post-literate age is here

Stanford's new freshman curriculum illustrates exactly what's wrong with college

Do you have a theory of mind for the other side?

The DSA is rising in NYC

Looper is the best movie about the pact with your future self

Tech should live in places that love technology

Twitter/X is not dead, and everyone who predicted that is wrong

You shouldn't trust Wikipedia

The surprisingly poor accuracy of human worry

The Atlantic is just left wing ZeroHedge now

The sin of noticing reality

The data center panic is dumb

"Diversity is our strength"

The war on builders

The Maine Senate race and the collapse of standards

When antitrust becomes ideological, we all pay the price

The sword and shield of curious skepticism

We stopped teaching the story of prosperity

Half of social science research falls apart under scrutiny

More evidence short form video is rotting your brain

NIMBYs are the real villains

New mix for 2026: 'Shadows and Light'

AI's narrative problem

Academia is exactly as biased as you think

The most influential crank in modern history

The media's obfuscation of reality continues

Same disease, different wrapper

The West should stand up to evil

Most things aren't actually political

Majority of Americans have low confidence in journalists

Against expert supremacy

Liberalism doesn't die from critique, it dies without it

When beauty breaks the system

Debating things like adults

The revolt against the revolution

The story of Ira Glass' dog, Piney

Bari Weiss derangement syndrome

The parable of Chesterton's Fence