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Culture and Politics

Read about culture and politics, but not the gross, boring kind where I just repeat partisan propaganda for clicks. Here we do the fun kind where we actually try and figure out what the hell is going on.

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...

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...

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...