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Streaming Will Never Be as Bad as Cable
Some of these services will offer really good value to consumers, and those that don’t will quickly become irrelevant.
In Space, Let Meritocracy Reign Supreme
Those who travel to Mars will not need to debate free markets, bureaucracy, or state control of the means of production. They will not care about the ethnicity or gender identity of their peers. They will be too busy figuring out how to survive.
How Most American Kids Are Kept Out of the Best Public Schools
Abolishing attendance zones will not make the problems of our education system disappear overnight.
Can We Boost Empathy Through Perspective-Taking?
One of the ways we have been taught to nurture empathy is by deliberately trying to take the perspective of a suffering person.
How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?
Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.
Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult
Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.
Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames
It’s really a collection of subcultures, since fans of one gaming niche often have little interest in any of the others.
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
Glassdoor Is Broken
In every instance there were detailed discussions about what’s missing and how to do better, delivered in a spirit of “hey, we’re not on a good path here.”
Studying the Links Between White Supremacist Terrorists and School Shooters
John Horgan, a psychologist who interviewed a large number of terrorists, concluded that they tend to have seven common traits.
Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals
Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.
Gambling in a Time of Despair
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Demoted and Placed on Probation
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
It’s Time to Pay for Social Media
Breaking up the tech giants would interrupt the network effects that make their products so valuable in the first place.
My University’s Plan for a Brave New World
The plan’s introduction, “Jobs as Central to Life,” starts by praising the liberal arts. But like Hamlet’s insincere Player Queen, it doth protest too much.