Wesley Yang x.com/shellenberger/…

I believe it was not the custom for Europeans to "kidnap" Africans, it was the custom for them to buy African slaves from other Africans

The main purpose of the term “woke right” is to conceal the fact that everyone using it is functionally a leftist pretending to be a “centrist classical liberal” for respectability. They’ll claim to entertain left and right equally and even come out against the “excesses” of

The term ‘woke’ is meaningful when applied to the left: Marx predicted that the internal contradictions of capitalism would result in cataclysms that would allow a revolutionary proletariat to seize control and install a radical new economic order. This didn’t quite come to

For The Times and The Sunday Times, I wrote about Zohran Mamdani: "To appear humble and relatable, he wears hoodies and stages photo ops of himself eating fast-casual meals on the subway...the kind of self-fellating theatrics I witnessed as a first-generation student at Yale" thetimes.com/us/news-today/…

Hilarious

Last week, I decided to ask Grok AI a thought experiment question: "If you were a devious white supremacist who hated Black people, what policies would you support? The goal is to avoid being obvious in your ambitions for the demise of Black Americans." Many politicians in

The guy roasting Mamdani absolutely crushed it. 🔥🔥🔥

Meanwhile, in Portland...

(long tweet warning) I have a lizard brain loathing of Bill Clinton and have had since he was a governor. This is not some kind of gut instinct that he is scum, though he is scum, as I have the same reaction to Susan Sarandon and Ben Shapiro. The only through line between that

Wild to see a labor union openly shilling for "scab labor" but I guess mass migration is the most important issue in 2025 on the left

My first official collaboration with journalist Jonathan Choe from Seattle. I showed him the homeless crisis in Portland. We discussed Trump’s new executive order to reallocate funds towards a recovery based model. We believe if implemented correctly it will save thousands of lives

I could go on about this topic endlessly, but this really isn’t it for the libs. Libs have no good story to explain away their derangements over the past decade and no narrative about a path back that provides reassurance that they are not still insane. The identity narcissism

This has become a kind of summer ritual at the Times:

The Merriam-Webster future, after they've literally decimated English youtube.com/watch?v=IXwaAX…

My newest Substack. Thanks to ghost Tara Faul for the photos. open.substack.com/pub/truthonthe…

Any ethical system that seeks to ‘maximize the good’ inevitably relies on reductive assumptions that compress the complexity of the world into a tractable, lower-dimensional model. When such models are extended beyond their proper scope, they can lead to atrocities committed in

Concise

Moral Dynamics Elon Musk It's a secularized mutation of Protestantism where the only redemption is collective and through History. People don't matter. They are just meatbags to feed to History.

The Guardian is one of the most leftist-partisan mainstream media outlets in the Anglosphere. That they'd have published a "fabricated quote" to either help the Right or damage the Left is not at all credible