One of the more damning consequences of the spread of AI has been the revelation of the degree to which vast numbers of people will gladly delegate legitimately every higher mental faculty at the first opportunity.

The difference between Republicans and Democrats: When Ben & Jerry’s went woke conservatives stopped eating Cherry Garcia. When the spice company Penzeys told Trump supporters they were not welcome, we just bought our paprika someplace else. And when Bud Light hired an ugly

Peter Hague The problem is that the woke left have taken over the means of cultural production & it is extremely difficult to get a right-leaning book published, movie released, or TV show made.

Matthew Schmitz And people wonder why men don't read contemporary fiction these days. It's because no one is writing books for them anymore (because the industry is not cultivating male talent).

It’s really hard to overstate the significance of what’s in this article on the last two decades of culture and what this has meant for a generation of would-be writers. It feels shameful and low for me personally to spend any more time complaining about it, but I’ll simply

It's clear in retrospect that the Great Awokening produced a massive Streisand Effect. Tens of millions of people who would have been quite happy never to learn about racial disparities in academic achievement and crime were forced to learn about them by one of history's

WHAT IF New York University didn't engage in blatant racial discrimination when they were selecting the Class of 2028? The result would be - Much higher average SAT scores - Minimal racial differences - Very different student demographics

This is a textbook error from Fraser Nelson whose failure to account for genetic & demographic confounders repeatedly makes him a right wing stooge for left wing causes. The children of single mothers tend to be genetically disadvantaged compared to children from intact families.

4/ Essentially, health equity means using Social Justice Political ideology to determine the allocation of healthcare resources instead of allocating resources based upon who needs it the most or which method of allocation is most efficient and effective.

True. But Paul Graham was wrong to equate wokeness with priggishness in his essay. Priggishness has always been with us, but historically it served a purpose of enforcing conformity with time-tested traditional mores whereas, under wokeness, it's now weaponized against those mores.

There is a real sadistic streak in British broadcasting. Melvyn Bragg is an insufferably obnoxious host, as was Jeremy Paxman, famously. A cottage industry of hostile interviewers like Cathy Newman have copied the template. But only midwits mistake condescension for cleverness.

With h/t to Emil Kirkegaard & Jonatan Pallesen for the template.

Jonathan Powell, presently National Security Advisor, gave a fairly simple solution to Blair twenty years ago on the asylum question.

Hunter Ash F.A. Hayek was acutely conscious of the dangers that democracy and majority rule presented to liberty, and he proposed an elaborate list of voting restrictions and constitutional checks to limit the power of the state (e.g. no votes for public sector employees or welfare

Every aspect of this story is a disgusting state failure. Convicted for beating someone with a metal spike and stamping on their head repeatedly. He only got 22 months. He was out in just 3 months. The day he left prison, he killed someone. How can anyone defend this?

The power of the state could have been used - STILL CAN - to build prisons at speed or designate suitable sites as emergency prisons. Inheriting a crisis doesn't give license to make a new one. There are solutions better than early release! Complete, systemic failure.

No, Alex, I’m mocking the idea that our universities resemble anything like “neutrality, fairness, and openness.” The real question is what to do when they become hyper-ideologized and openly discriminatory. And the answer cannot be “keep sending them unlimited public funding.”

Britain’s welfare system is broken Bangladesh man + 9 children claiming benefits for sleep disorder & depression Complaining taxpayer didn’t pay for translation despite him being here for 28 years Seriously ……. newspaper.mailplus.co.uk/data/6644/read…

Apparently, female shop owners in Sheffield feel unsafe because of "men". Yet strangely, intimidation by men has grown tenfold in the last year while men have existed in Sheffield forever. The BBC's inability to name the real problem is remarkable: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Dear Xenocosmography, You have discussed how the ethnats, the theonomists, and the techno-commercialists must hang together or hang separately, and that each contingent needs to curb its excesses to maintain a coalition that can defeat the progressive Regime. You must see that