The Apex Laborer: Technology and the Human Ego
The prevailing view that we’re safe from technological unemployment has a dubious basis. We will continue to create new jobs, but we can’t yet create new human capacities. The presumption…
What We’re Reading #11 — June 4th, 2018
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The Selfish Nature of Human Cooperation
An optimistic anthropological perspective on human nature has emerged in the last two decades: the view that cooperation is the most essential human activity and that conflict, violence, and moral…
Why Good People Turn Bad Online
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies. On the evening of 17 February 2018, Professor Mary Beard posted on…
Who’s Afraid of the “Intellectual Dark Web”?
I have been meaning to comment on the sound and fury about Bari Weiss’ New York Times piece on the “Intellectual Dark Web,” an informal network of “heretics” and “renegades” who dissent…
Sympathology: Being Aggrieved on Behalf of Those Who Are Not
Pathologized Sympathy There is a group of people who frequently appear in the headlines, identified by a wide range of terms. Instead of listing all of them here, it’s best…
The Democratic Fundamentalist: A Response to Nathan J. Robinson’s “Socialism as a Set of Principles”
Three cheers for socialism! What’s not to like?
The Victim Mentality will Imprison You — and then Destroy You
Recently, Candace Owens, host of the popular YouTube channel Red Pill Black, and communications director for the conservative think-tank Turning Point USA, made headlines when she was endorsed by Kanye…
What We’re Reading #9 — May 7th, 2018
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Rhextortion: Misinterpretation by Proxy
The other day a friend linked me to a tweet from one journalist to another: “i think you want to be really careful,” it said, “about using language that sounds…
Islamic Feminism is a Myth
The ousting of Moroccan scholar Asma Lamrabet lays bare the falsity of claims by mostly Western conservative Muslims that Islam is the most feminist religion once again.
What’s in the Works #8 — April 30th, 2018
Welcome to What’s in the Works, an exclusive series for our supporters where I list the theses of Areo articles that are in development. It’s short and simple, but I hope it…
Sure, The Left Keeps Eating Itself — Who Can We Draft to Bite Back?
The protest faced by Jordan Peterson at Queen’s University was one of the latest in a series of events that continue to stir the tempest in a teapot that embodies…
Skepticism is Necessary in our Post-Truth Age. Postmodernism is Not
We at Areo recently published a passionate defense of postmodernism by Kenneth Houston, Professor of International Relations at Webster. We did so, despite having published several essays strongly critical of…
What We’re Reading #8 — April 23rd, 2018
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Activism and the Conflict of Visions
I recently read Thomas Sowell’s classic work A Conflict of Visions. In it, he attempts to describe two different foundational worldviews, or visions, which are implicit in the thinking of…
Sam Harris, Ezra Klein, and the Politicization of Science
The year long feud between cognitive neuroscientist Sam Harris and Editor-at-Large of Vox Ezra Klein is one that has pitted advocates for a group identity based approach to politics against…
Enlightenment Thought: A Very Brief Primer
The controversy surrounding Steven Pinker’s latest book, Enlightenment Now, has led to a scurry of casual pronouncements on Enlightenment philosophy, some of which are misguided. While this is far too expansive…
