One of the most fascinating episodes of House — “The Social Contract” (S05E17) — tells the story of Nick Greenwald, a well-respected editor at a prestigious press who suddenly loses the…
Given the recent revelations about Facebook’s facilitation of data mining on behalf of Cambridge Analytica, deleting your Facebook could be a reasonable reaction. You might even consider participating in Quit…
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This article was originally offered to Huffington Post Living as a transgender woman, I deal with vitriol and love from people from all walks of life. Being transgender is no…
While it certainly seems paradoxical that a corporation would appropriate graffiti, an art form conceptually associated with opposition to corporate interests, for commercial purposes, it is also paradoxical that an artist would seek to use the force of the law to prevent a corporation from appropriating work that he created in the public sphere evidently outside of law’s purview.
The modern university is undoubtedly among humanity’s crowning achievements, and, more than many other advances made over the last five centuries, it is in danger. Now, more than any time…
Welcome to What’s in the Works, an exclusive series for our supporters where I list the theses of Areo articles that are in development. It’s short and simple, but I hope it…
Welcome to What We’re Reading, an exclusive fortnightly recap for our supporters at the Affiliate Publisher level and above. This is where we highlight articles, books, and blogs we’ve been reading,…
Lefty friends keep asking me if — or telling me that — I’m a conservative now. But I’m just a liberal who remembers what they’ve forgotten. I remember what it meant to…
1. The Logocentric Left Around the world, in revanchist reaction to the muddle of modernity, far right political movements are rising. In response, the far left provides answers that manage only…
In a recent piece for Quillette, Bo Winegard talks about what he calls “cosmic egalitarianism,” a thoroughgoing sort of egalitarianism that reacts strongly to arguments that some groups of people…
Once again we see a resurgence of interest in intentional communities and in Utopian experiments in living communally. Even Time Magazine is advocating such ways of living as a solution…
Welcome to What’s in the Works, an exclusive series for our supporters where I list the theses of Areo articles that are in development. It’s short and simple, but I hope it…