“Women in 2017 are desperate for good, honorable, decent, and kind men to date,” Jordan McGillis recently wrote. Thus began a post in response to this: “Somewhere in the world, there is a kind, decent person who can’t find a date. Richard Spencer has a beautiful wife. This is yet another reminder that the world … [Read more…]

We are really risk-averse and fear failing. Which is good for staying alive but bad for flourishing. In our modern world, staying alive isn’t hard. But living is damn near impossible. It requires taking risks, which requires failure. “You have to push yourself if you want to improve in any aspect of your life,” Cynthia said. … [Read more…]

New Bay City Beacon goodness: Exclusive Suburbs Pit Labor Against Renters in Housing Package Fight. As for things I’ve been reading, I thought The Alt-Right Is Not Who You Think They Are was worth a read. “To complicate matters further, many people in the alt-right were radicalized while in college. Not only that, but the efforts to … [Read more…]

“It is possible that Dylann Roof is not an outlier at all, then, but rather emblematic of an approaching storm,” wrote Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah in an amazing piece called A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof which I highly recommend you read in full. I want to expand a little upon something I wrote recently … [Read more…]

While we’re all still recovering from the Google memo, Olga Khazan has published a fascinating piece for the Atlantic: Why Do Women Bully Each Other at Work? The piece highlights, with empirical research, how women often respond to sexism against women by engaging in sexism against women. I wrote about this years ago: The Definition of Feminism: What Does … [Read more…]

When I wrote recently that libertarianism and fascism have a complicated relationship, I was thinking specifically about people like Christopher Cantwell, who represented the grassroots movement for violent white nationalism in the VICE documentary on Charlottesville. The SPLC (which which I have my grievances) has a good history of Cantwell’s libertarian thought leadership and activism. My history with … [Read more…]

Hello my babies. Or what’s left of you. I swear, every time I put out an email I lose 20 subscribers. For those of you who have stayed, I appreciate your loyalty. It actually published Tuesday, as it usually does, but I had a free speech rant that took precedence. So here’s my latest for … [Read more…]

Some progressives are calling for Oakland to rescind the permit they’ve extended to a “Prayer meeting” for a group of white nationalists on August 26. I am not a Nazi. I explicitly and thoroughly repudiate and oppose fascism. This is important, first, because you never know these days. And second, because what I’m about to … [Read more…]

This weekend white nationalists descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia to protest the City of Charlottesville’s decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee. Several hours into the “Unite the Right” rally 20-year-old James Alex Fields, Jr. rammed his silver Dodge Charger into a crowd of protesters twice, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 20 other protesters. … [Read more…]