Ezra Klein’s “Why We’re Polarized.” Book Review.
Donald Trump once famously said that he could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and he would not lose a vote, and a significant proportion of the US…
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Jonathan Haidt, Ezra Klein and the Nature of Wicked Problems
Can we solve the problem of inequality without compromising our commitment to free speech and the wellbeing of the individual? Can we advance the project of heterodoxy and civil discourse…
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In Defense of Distinctions, or What Ezra Klein Gets Wrong About the IDW
In a piece for Vox, Ezra Klein attempts to explain the rise of what he calls “YouTube’s reactionary right.” Klein’s definition of reactionary YouTubers encompasses a wide range of figures:…
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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…
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Global Minority Rule: Why American Anti-Majoritarianism is far from Exceptional
Not long ago, a man was elected to his country’s highest office in circumstances perplexing to many voters. Despite a historically low favourability rating, and a plurality of votes having…
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America’s Racial Reckoning: A Post-Mortem
Even before the cultural upheavals following the death of George Floyd, race in America was among our most polarizing issues. According to a 2019 analysis by Pew Research, political partisanship…
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The Humane Art: Why We Should All Read and Write Letters
Scarcely any species of composition deserves more to be cultivated than the epistolary style—Samuel Johnson, 1751 Such [letters] as are written from wise men are of all the words of…
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Vox’s Double Standard For Hate
What rules govern the social acceptability of interactions between people that invoke immutable (race, gender etc.) or quasi-immutable (religion, class etc.) characteristics? How do these rules relate to serious expressions…
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What Connects the “Intellectual Dark Web”?
As soon as the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) appeared in the culture wars, so did accusations that its members are all closed-minded and politically partisan. Recently, in Quillette, Uri Harris…
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Yes, The Intellectual Dark Web Is Politically Diverse
A Response to Quillette’s Uri Harris One of the most common criticisms of the Intellectual Dark Web from the mainstream progressive left is that they are merely a group of…
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What We’re Reading #11 — June 4th, 2018
What We’re Reading is an exclusive fortnightly recap for our supporters at the Affiliate Publisher level and above. This is where we highlight articles, books, and blogs we’ve been reading,…
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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…
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Are Campus and Media Conservatives Asking For It?
Recent interruptions of Christina Hoff Sommers at Lewis & Clark College (and reactions to Bari Weiss’s New York Times editorial about them), and the Atlantic’s quick hiring and firing of Kevin…
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The Nightmare From Which Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Trying Not to Awake
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new essay collection We Were Eight Years in Power is challenging and troubling, but the trouble does not derive mostly from the challenge. In the introduction Coates sets…
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What Happened? Hillary Clinton Still Doesn’t Know
Fittingly, Hillary Clinton tells us two contradictory things about the purpose of her confusing, tedious new tome What Happened?. First page: it’s “the story of what [she] saw, felt, and thought”…
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