privilege, celebrity, and the end of up from below

this video has more goddamn versions than Blade Runner

imperfect reality can’t win in a culture of fantasy

this conversation needs to happen, this book needs to sell

thirty years created expectations we haven’t met for a half-century

nothing in our educational debates will ever get better until we accept as a society that schools cannot change an individual’s nature

you can’t hide on Tumblr or campus or behind a paywall forever

and if adult academics and activists presenting formal papers at a conference are not fair targets of good-faith criticism, who possibly could be?

the German far right’s rise is happening in a country that has aggressively attempted to censor the far right for 70 years

the only sport I care about is back

a subscriber-only excerpt from All In Your Head

it’s never been less popular, or more important, to be willing to challenge claims about medical disorders and how they’re caused

but that’s not enough, is it?

three beings who are running on somebody else’s hardware

how “days of learning” explains the education reform shell game

a man who hates his own body in a city that will happily sell you a new one

you can't make progress if you're obsessed with not being owned

one more time: human behavior is the product of incentives

avoidance as the inescapable political meta

they're impossible to 100% eliminate, but that's OK if we're chill and have integrity

disorders without objective tests and medicines that work despite a lack of understanding of their physiological mechanism are perfectly common

what is progress, when there are no more unique arrangements of 0s and 1s?

I ask for so little, God

Nolan's film portrays Odysseus as a figure of conventional contemporary morals in much the same way cinephiles erase the conservatism from Nolan's work

it seems way too easy to provoke Pangram into contradicting its own results

the more you forbid transgression, the more they want to transgress

with his YIMBY cap on, Matt Yglesias acts just like the DSA types he abhors

we're only human

non-falsifiability and life-altering accusations are a bad match

and Toy Story 3 was critically acclaimed because it was made for critics

I hate writing this so much

the Knicks have brought joy to a city that's being eaten by the worst people alive

a loving teleplay parody

let's be adults here, please

fear of "old man yells at cloud" has become a culture-devouring virus

"Claude, get me a contract with a healthy advance but not one so large that the book will surely fail to earn out, causing deep emotional pain and professional doom"