There are two subjects I rarely write about because nothing I say will change the minds of the polarized: abortion and gun rights. But the double-punch of the Uvalde targeting of children and the Buffalo targeting of black people has made me take on the gun issue. There’s been no…

It reads like a revenge plot: an old writer comes to one of the most important conventions in her field to be honored for her lifetime of work, and is publicly humiliated without the opportunity to clarify what she meant when she confuses two similar terms. The writer is the…

I like to think my idea of free speech is the one true version, but I know there are many competing concepts. Here are the most popular four, plus a fifth that has a very tiny but very vocal following: Classic free speech: Censorship by the government (aka public censorship)…

Only 19% of U.S. women think “feminist” describes them very well, and nearly half of that 19% think feminism is polarizing and not inclusive. That information is buried in a misleadingly titled article about a 2020 Pew poll, “61% of U.S. women say ‘feminist’ describes them well; many see feminism…

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” …

Anti-racists think racism is the most important problem in America, but only 3% of black people agree with them. That shouldn’t surprise you—if you believe all people are basically alike, you know black people’s main concerns are the ones we all share. And since a high percentage of black people…

Note: This is the current draft of an introduction to a collection of my posts on identitarianism, so the quotes in the third paragraph will be very familiar to my regular readers. We live our lives being told who we are by people who want to use us. Some believe…

I first saw the consequences of treating class issues as race issues when #BLM focused on black people instead of poor people. Victims of the police are almost exclusively poor, which is why the statistics of US poverty and police killings are roughly the same: twice as many white people…