Thinking Out Aloud

Areo magazine has published another essay of mine, Bravado in the Absence of Order , which examines why African-American urban communities...

I have an essay in Areo Magazine arguing that piety display is often a more accurate term than virtue signalling for what people are typ...

Merit and competence is often hard to measure. Give a bureaucracy some simpler metric (say, diversity points) and it will grasp it with al...

India is an extremely genetically diverse nation, with considerable cultural, religious and linguistic diversity. So, what are the common...

This blog has been quiet because I am writing a book on marriage, to be published by Connor Court , and have been composing essays, hopeful...

This is based on a comment I made here . Coming from a country (Australia) with a much higher proportional immigration flow than the US,...

This year is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx (1818-1883). A recent biography of Marx (reviewed here ) places him very muc...

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have produced a Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity . There is much to agree with in it but at lea...