Politics Postmodernism vs. The Pomoid Cluster Posted on June 30, 2018July 4, 20187 commentsbyJohn Nerst This is an abridged and edited version of a piece published in Everything Studies. Since I’ve been active on Twitter, I’ve had front row seats to the best intellectual slapfights no… View Post
View Post 4 min Letter from the Editor Where Now for Areo? Posted on June 28, 2018June 29, 20182 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose Yesterday, Areo said “goodbye” to its creator, Malhar Mali. In his farewell, Malhar said, “I started Areo because I was frustrated; I was disappointed at what many outlets deemed to… View Post
View Post 5 min Letter from the Editor I’m Leaving — and What’s Next for Areo Posted on June 27, 2018June 27, 20188 commentsbyMalhar Mali A letter from the Editor. View Post
View Post 22 min Features The Pendulum Need Not Swing: Why Gender Roles are Not the Answer to Blank Slatism Posted on June 19, 2018June 19, 201815 commentsbyHelen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay It is commonplace to describe prevailing attitudes about social issues, including those regarding gender equality and gender roles, as being like a pendulum which swings one way and then another… View Post
View Post 5 min Politics Not All Politics is Identity Politics Posted on June 14, 20188 commentsbyRalph Leonard We should get out of our lanes not stay in them. View Post
View Post 8 min Science & Tech The Apex Laborer: Technology and the Human Ego Posted on June 13, 20188 commentsbyBrandon Wilson The prevailing view that we’re safe from technological unemployment has a dubious basis. We will continue to create new jobs, but we can’t yet create new human capacities. The presumption… View Post
View Post 8 min Politics Elon Musk, Celebrity, and the Information Age Posted on June 10, 2018June 10, 20182 commentsbyGenevieve Weynerowski Elon Musk was pissed off. The capo di tutti capi of this era’s visionary disrupters recently tossed his super high-end gauntlet down at the feet of the media. Musk was tweeting… View Post
View Post 12 min Features What Was Romanticism? Putting the “Counter-Enlightenment” in Context Posted on June 10, 2018June 10, 2018One commentbyWessie du Toit In his latest book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress, Steven Pinker heaps a fair amount of scorn on Romanticism, the movement in art and philosophy… View Post
View Post 6 min Politics On Making by Calling and the Need for Conversation Posted on June 5, 2018One commentbyOliver Traldi On Twitter, Bari Weiss of the New York Times has written: “[F]ailing to draw distinctions between people like Sam Harris and people like Richard Spencer strips the designation ‘alt-right’ of… View Post
View Post 10 min Politics The Worst of Liberal Absolutism Posted on June 5, 2018June 5, 20182 commentsbyO.T. Ford The problem is that there are also valid arguments on the other side. Only an absolutist pretends otherwise. View Post
View Post 2 min What We're Reading What We’re Reading #11 — June 4th, 2018 Posted on June 4, 2018July 16, 2018No commentsbyAreo Magazine What We’re Reading is 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,… View Post
View Post 9 min Science & Tech The Selfish Nature of Human Cooperation Posted on June 1, 2018June 3, 2018One commentbyCody James An optimistic anthropological perspective on human nature has emerged in the last two decades: the view that cooperation is the most essential human activity and that conflict, violence, and moral… View Post