Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought.

On men who convince themselves they are the only true meritocrats because women somehow don‘t understand or don‘t appreciate the idea of merit.

Shifting political talk from policy to values

What's in the box?

A tribute to my mentor and friend in his final days.

A discussion of how arguments that work are really arguments that work for us.

Using LEGOs to illustrate mechanisms of identity formation in a liberal society.

Libertarianism and conservatism are ultimately incompatible political philosophies because they aim at conflicting ends.

Of the illiberal ideologies clamoring for attention and influence in the contemporary American right, integralism, touted by some prominent Catholic thinkers, managed to be both the most coherent and quixotic. Roughly, the idea is that the radical self-authorship that markets and liberalism’s individualistic ethos enable and encourage have led

The senator's entire governing philosophy is that no one should be able to live different than Hawley chooses.