Is Battle Rap the Last True Bastion of Free Speech?
In a packed basement in the heart of Sheffield, northern England, two burly men—one wearing a hoodie, the other sporting a fitted New York Mets baseball cap at a jaunty…
The Engaged Left: The Emergence of a Political Movement
Over the past few months, I’ve written a number of pieces for outlets like Quillette and this magazine, Areo. While these magazines publish articles on a wide variety of topics—from…
On Good Governance: The Federalist Papers, Diversity and Liberalism
Chris Hayes recently tweeted, “The least sexy part of socialism is effective, efficient bureaucratic administration but the project lives or dies based on it.” My purpose here is to utilize…
Multiculturalism Cannot Include Respect for Homophobia
Multiculturalism has been described as a melting pot and as the best alternative to assimilationist policies, which have been perceived as fraught, due to the fear that people from cultural…
The Ape That Understood the Universe: Book Review
We humans take so much of reality for granted that it is often difficult to recognize which phenomena even require explanation. This is especially true of human behavior, as Steve…
The Canonization of a School Shooter
Image by Eugene Police Department On 11 January 2019, two police officers responded to a custody dispute at Cascade Middle School in Eugene, Oregon. Charlie Landeros, a thirty-year-old Army veteran,…
Happiness Versus Meaning
The pursuit of happiness has become controversial — so much so that many will read this text and vehemently disagree with my pontifications. Happiness as a concept seems to have fallen out…
Because I Was a Boy: A Personal Account of Foreskin Restoration
Because I was a boy, it was legal for medical practitioners to restrain me, separate my foreskin from my glans and remove my foreskin. This is known medically as circumcision.…
Technology and Taxation: How New Technology is Disrupting the Nation State
Hello World! And the horse was out the stable… oh, how beautiful and powerful a horse she was. Old Nations, New Technologies Undoubtedly, developments in technology have changed the world…
The Threat to Academia: Language Games and Ideology
The Kanye West of philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein was a controversial figure. Brilliant and belligerent in equal measures, the Austro-British contrarian contributed to the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language,…
Untangling the Patriarchy Paradox: A Review of Kate Manne’s Down Girl
In her increasingly influential book, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, philosophy professor Kate Manne offers a radical new way to think about sexism and misogyny. Unfortunately, her account is…
Social Justice and the Critique of Reason
One of the fundamental problems with the social justice movement, especially given its puritanical and totalitarian proclivities, is that, in spite of its otherwise reasonable concerns about oppression and marginalization…
What’s Missing From Call-Out Culture: The Opportunity to Change
Call-out culture, the act of publicly and collectively reprimanding someone for a past misstep, has longstanding roots in anthropological history. In our online society, in which the past cannot readily…
Who or What Are We Human Mammalia, Really?
Warning Assimilation of the concepts herein may lead to mental anxiety if the external world is believed to be reality. Who or What Are We? We have an unbroken lineal…
Rethinking the Roots of White Supremacism
Why have white supremacist movements been surging recently in the Anglosphere? CNN argue that the election of Obama resurrected deeply held racial resentments in the American psyche, priming predominantly white…
Tucker Carlson Mischaracterizes Economic Populism
We need to get serious about economic populism and what benefits and costs it could entail for the United States. In his 3 January 2019 rant, Tucker Carlson sparked a…
Ancient Stoicism, Human Rights and The Dignity of the Individual
In August 2018, I published an article in Quillette, in which I defended Roman Stoicism from its Christian critics. The article examined the ethical possibilities of Christianity as compared with…
The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin. Book Review
Few political science books have stirred as much controversy as Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind. In its initial review, the New York Times dismisses the book as a diatribe preaching…
