Many thinkers have profitably compared wokism to a religion. Here, I want to drill into this comparison by looking at the way wokism resembles a certain strand of apocalyptic thinking and then examine now Nietzsche’s analysis of the triumph of Christianity in “The Genealogy of Morals” might explain the popularity…

Recently, somebody (or some people) created a RationalWiki page dedicated to me. It is full of half-truths, mendacities, and out-of-context quotes. At first, I just ignored it. However, it has intruded upon my professional life, so I feel it necessary to respond. …

The crazy thing is it’s not even that close — The debate is over. LeBron James is the greatest basketball player in history. His closest competitor, Michael Jordan, has been vanquished. Not everyone agrees—Jordan still has many defenders. But that’s only because human beings are slow to let go of once-revered truths. What these resisters have in common is a…

A political vision that takes nature seriously — “What really matters is not what I think about the Church today, or about capitalism, or military processions, or about communism; what matters is whether I believe in original sin.” — T. S. Eliot Conservatism needs a vigorous defense. Among the educated, it is often disparaged as a fearful and…

This criticism is based on a faulty understanding of science — Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is one of the most powerful and elegant theories in science. Without it, as Theodosius Dobzhansky noted, nothing in biology makes sense. …