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Alden Faraway

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

How To Save Our Culture From The Sensitivity Readers

People are amazing. They’re capable of incredible creativity. They can build entire imaginary worlds full of epic stories. Their work gives us a place to escape, a place to hope, a place to experience everything humanity has to offer. But then a corporation comes along

The scales of justice

Is White Privilege Real?

Is white privilege a real thing? The question is incredibly polarizing, and different people give wildly different answers. To make things even more complicated...

Man staring off into the distance on an alien planet wearing futuristic armor

What Should We Do With Technology?

What’s your opinion on technology? Is it something to be feared or embraced, controlled or liberated? Should we lean into technology and shape the world and ourselves as we please? Or should we recognize the error in our ways...

Lincoln Memorial staring out

How To Be Anti Race

A millennia from now, how will our descendants look at our obsession with race, identity, and the physical differences between people? For an easy answer we can look to the past. Take a moment...

Lion with blood on its face eating a zebra

There Are No Happy Endings In Nature

Planet Earth is covered with life, but none has had a more profound impact than Humans. We aren't the oldest, most numerous, or even the most widespread species, but we are unique. We've managed to take control our own fate, and that of the entire planet...

Chess pieces lined up on opposing sides

The Core Assumptions Behind Left Wing and Right Wing Ideology

Everyone knows that politics in the United States is spiraling down and ever deeper hole of illiberalism and hatred. Partisans on both sides of the conflict will insist that they're right, the other side is wrong, and here's all the evidence why. But if you take a step back, a fascinating pattern...