“In the past, upper-class Americans used to display their social status with luxury goods. Today, they do it with luxury beliefs.” —Rob Henderson A number of thinkers in recent years have applied signaling theory to explain the often bizarre beliefs of educated elites in the West. In this short piece…

“And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don’t want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.” Albert Camus. Many liberals, progressives, and other cosmopolitans view…

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…

And we are here as on a darkling plain/Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight/Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach A few months ago, Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist at the New York Times, provoked controversy with an article about “the secrets” of Jewish success…

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. …