The data demands we build bridges, not walls

The data demands we build bridges, not walls

Or; Why We Need New Atheism Now More Than Ever

Or; Why We Need New Atheism Now More Than Ever

What the Salem witch trials can teach us about reckoning with “Woke 1”

From the pilgrims to the culture wars, Americans have always been star-spangled, heretic-hunting, purity-obsessed sexual busybodies.

From the pilgrims to the culture wars, Americans have always been star-spangled, heretic-hunting, purity-obsessed sexual busybodies.

Concept creep, tribalism, and our endless chase for clout

In the wake of 9/11, Sam Harris made a prediction about where our politics was headed. Two decades later, he wasn’t just right: what he warned about has become a defining feature of modern politics.

In the wake of 9/11, Sam Harris made a prediction about where our politics was headed. Two decades later, he wasn’t just right: what he warned about has become a defining feature of modern politics.

Concept creep, tribalism, and our endless chase for clout

Concept creep, tribalism, and our endless chase for clout

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies … The man who never reads lives only one.” — George R. R. Martin

An editor's guide to fact-checking and fact-finding.

You can make people laugh and think at the same time, but not if you're only punching in one direction.

When your only goal is power, ideas are just transactional tools along the way.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, as the global population was growing by leaps and bounds, prominent institutions and leaders, from the UN to US President Richard Nixon, warned about the looming overpopulation ...

When your only goal is power, ideas are just transactional tools along the way.

There's no such thing as a free wonder drug.

There's no such thing as a free wonder drug.

History, hypocrisy, and the trans right to bear arms

Pay-to-play, endorsements for sale, and the old-fashioned campaign corruption under all our noses

The culture, complexities, and stubborn persistence of India's caste system

Blockbusters have more bi characters than ever, but you’d never know it from watching the movies.

A review of David Benatar's "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence"

A review of David Benatar's "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence"

Institutional trust may be in free fall, but Americans have just as much trust as ever — they've simply found new places to put it.

Institutional trust may be in free fall, but Americans have just as much trust as ever — they've simply found new places to put it.

Or, the subtle art of alienating everyone

Gay and lesbian communities may never fully outgrow their biphobia, but bi people will outgrow their reliance on gay and lesbian communities.

A conversation with History Impossible's Alexander von Sternberg

A conversation with History Impossible's Alexander von Sternberg

Hysteria over Anne Frank’s bisexuality shows the religious right’s true colors.

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey has been dead for generations, but he still lives rent-free in Republicans’ minds.

The most consequential insights can be the easiest to overlook

Replacing institutions, the rule of law, and liberal principles with the whims of an in-group is as un-American as it gets.

It’s time for Democrats to move on from trying to save “real America” from itself.

It’s time for Democrats to move on from trying to save “real America” from itself.

Where radical activism caused only anti-LGBT backlash, liberal-minded trans activism must do the work of persuasion and compromise.

His dehumanizing ordeal with the police could have left him radicalized or disenchanted. Instead, it turned Dakarai Larriett into a liberal reformer.

Society is far from the anti-trans hellscape activists portray it as, but if we follow the road they’ve started down, eventually it will be.

Recent data shows just how mainstream anti-Semitism has gone on the right

In sizing up the rebooted classic, extremists see either capitalist fever dream or woke nightmare—an impressive feat.

Peter Tatchell believes that as LGBT rights are accepted, fewer people will feel the need to assert a gay or straight identity. Why do some activists see that as bad news?

The left says everyone’s racist. The right says everyone’s a groomer. And words continue to take a beating.