A dinner at a private home is not a public event at which one has an unrestricted right to protest

Communist regimes:

NOT EVEN ONE MILE OF ACTUAL TRAIN HAS BEEN BUILT

This is false. Marx never telegrammed Lincoln. He drafted a congratulatory resolution for the Workingmen's Association that was dropped off at the embassy in London under the signature of W. Randal Cremer. The State Dept. had no idea who Marx was, let alone that he was involved.

Candlemakers’ union celebrates ban on light bulbs

The (correct) centrist take is to support surrogacy because it’s both pro-family and pro-bodily autonomy

The irony is that this sort of uncharitable account of viewpoint diversity illustrates the need for viewpoint diversity—people might be less likely to reflexively dismiss outparty views if they had more intellectual interaction with outparty members

In 2011, Wisconsin nuked the ability of teachers unions' to negotiate compensation & opened the door to individual pay

This incentivized large numbers of college students to enter teaching -- particularly from selective universities -- and appreciably raised K-12 achievement

Viewpoint diversity in academia is important: it’s unhealthy if 80% of referees share an ideology because ideology affects how we assess the quality of arguments. “People with different ideologies may accept different conclusions from the same evidence” tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Waymo is so good that unions can slow it down, but they can’t stop it

There are *zero* registered Republicans in anthropology departments at elite liberal arts colleges. That level of politicization makes the prevalence of neoclassical economists in economics departments look trivial by comparison

My article for Social Philosophy and Policy on why we don't (necessarily) need the state to achieve social justice is now open access.

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No, you do not have the First Amendment right to give a speech on someone else's private property after you've been asked to leave by the property owners.

The New York Times Pitchbot is just the Babylon Bee for progressives