Archive
- The Anti-Social Life of the Unapologetic Man
- Decentralization is Insurance
- We Needn't Have a One True Platform
- Distinguishing Labor from Work
- Your Internet Doesn't Need to Be Big
- NIMBYism's Slow Cancellation of the Future
- A Couple of What They Call Media Hits
- Skillful and Unskillful Politics
- The Ambiguity of "Growth"
- American History as Fandom Lore
- Out Now: Liberalism's Inner Life
- My New Project: The Inner Life of Liberalism Podcast
- The Thing About Griping About Bluesky
- Don't Harm Your Enemies. Make Them Less Harmful.
- What the Ancients Knew About Posting Well
- Two Helpful Essays Illuminating Liberal Practice
- The Ethics of Not Being Offended
- The Kids Aren’t Into Retro Tech Because of Surveillance Capitalism
- ReImagining Liberty Ends (And What's to Come)
- Who Is AI Music For?
- The Inner Life of Liberalism
- Argumentation and Illumination: Two Ways Philosophy Works
- ReImagining Liberty 098: The Practice and Inner Life of Liberalism (w/ Jason Canon)
- If You’ve Only Ever Played D&D, You’re Missing Out
- The Faux-Sophistication of Doomer Despair
- Trump is Governing a Country that Doesn't Exist—And Destroying One That Does
- The Regime Has No Defense Against a Good Neighbor
- ReImagining Liberty is taking a short break
- What Pete Hegseth’s Kettlebell Swings Tell Us About MAGA Ideology
- My Favorite Movie of 2025
- ReImagining Liberty 096: The Irrationality of Rationalists (w/ Samantha Hancox-Li)
- You Can't Escape the Algorithm
- Spending Time with Spinal Tap (Again)
- ReImagining Liberty 095: Adam Gurri on Opposition Meda versus Complicit Media
- MAGA is an Auto-Humiliation Movement
- The End of the Showman Presidency
- The Answer to Student AI Writing Slop is Authorial Voice
- ReImagining Liberty 094: A New American Reconstruction
- Why Elites Believe in Racial IQ Differences and Evolutionary Psych
- The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political Realignment
- Most Americans Aren’t Fascists, and That’s a Big Problem for the GOP
- The Anti-Anti-Trans Election
- Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media
- What It Means to View Ethics as a Practice
- No Kings and Letting Ourselves Hope
- You Haven’t Been Canceled. You’re Just Unlikable.
- If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating?
- Two Kinds of Libertarians
- Elite Complicity in the Rise of Fascism
- How to Be in a World on Fire
- Trumpism and the Status Anxiety of Abusers
- Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse
- Roy Cooper, Prayer, and the Folly of Anti-Religious Collectivism
- Boys Are Falling Behind Girls Because Girls Aren't Being Held Back
- Silicon Valley’s “996” Is About Power, not Productivity
- AI and the Threat of Nostalgia Culture
- An Inconsistent Approach to Viewpoint Diversity
- If You Want to Win Political Arguments, Stop Being an Asshole
- Liberalism, Virtue, and the Crisis of Young Men
- Fight Now, Hope Always
- Trump Promised Disaster. His Supporters Didn’t Believe Him.
- Reign of the Competency Cosplayers
- The GOP is now just grifters grifting each other
- Selling Out vs. Just Selling: The Weirdness of "Content" Monetization
- Why Reasonable Doubt Matters (and Why You Should Serve on a Jury)
- The Emperor's New Annexations: Journalism and the Normalization of Nonsense
- Bad Policy Comes from Confusing "Complexity" and "Complication"
- The Politics of "Unbiased" Conservative Search Engines
- Politics as a Tool: Shaping Society for Good
- The Limits of AI Learning: Why Drilling Down Can Lead You Astray
- The Shaky Future of Trump's Personality Cult
- Twitter and the Confusion of Medium and Message
- Why, Despite the Numbers, Bluesky Feels Bigger than Threads
- It's Okay if Your Social Media Platform is a Bubble
- Small Reasons for Hope
- What Do We Do Now?
- Don't Turn Away
- The Staggering Promise of AI Tutors
- Representation in Video Games and Movies is Not "Politics"
- The Basic Case for Liberalism
- The Quillette Effect
- The GOP's Competence Gap
- Barriers in the Way of an Ethical Life
- AI and Theft: A Thought Experiment
- Actually, Trump Would Be Terrible for the Economy
- A Rorschach Test for the State of American Free Speech
- A Politics of Harmlessness
- “Social Liberalization” in Opposition to “Social Conservatism”
- History's Social Conservatives Were Always Wrong. So are Today's.
- What happens if Trump loses?
- The Elite Protect Their Own
- In Politics, Don’t Aim to “Win,” but Rather “Win Over”
- The Innsmouth Immigrant Crimewave the Democrat Party is Hiding from You
- The Verge’s “Failure” is a Win for Everyone: Talent Networks as Networks
- Twitter/X as a Bubble for Bad Ethics
- The Misuse of Meritocracy
- How Demanding is Self-Authorship?
- Why It Works to Call Them Weird
- Why the Right Lies About Cities
- The False Equivalence Trap
- What is Ethics?
- The Politics of Broken Values and Warped Perspectives
- The Worst Argument in Politics
- David Boaz: Liberty's North Star
- Four Bad Arguments Against AI
- The Liberal Identity Crisis
- The Necessary Virtue of Not Being an Asshole
- Why Tech Bros Overestimate AI's Creative Abilities
- Why AI is the New Sliced Bread
- Against a Life of Moderation
- Substack Doesn't Want You to Leave
- How to Talk Yourself into Defending Nonsense
- Your Philosophy Might Be True — But Not for the Reasons You Think
- Scott Adams, "Scientific" Misogyny, and Roland Barthes's Mythology
- Political Optimism in 2024
- How LEGO Can Teach Us About Meaning In Liberal Societies
- A Conflict of Visions
- Living Well Means Recognizing Three Facts of Our Existence
- This is the Good Life
- The Challenge of Committing to Liberty—and Meaning It
- Three Kinds of Conservatives
- Just One Fewer God?
- Surround Yourself With Those Who Are Admirable, and Distance Yourself From Those Who Aren’t.
- How Social Media Tricks our Brains—and Destroys our Politics
- It's Okay to Speak Ill of the Dead
- The Limits of Reason
- (Anti-)Wokeism as a Rorschach Test
- A Twitter Eulogy
- A Crash Course in Cultivating Liberal Virtues
- Social Conservatism is Suffering
- No, Midjourney (and other AI) Is Not Stealing Your Work
- Goodwill, Sympathetic Joy, and Liberalism's Foundations
- Why Do Conservatives Keep Hyper-Sexualizing Men in Dresses?
- Liberalism and Sympathetic Joy
- If Your Faith Makes You a Bigot, It's Time to Question Your Faith
- Hate Can Be Mainstream
- The Ideology of Hang-Ups
- The Drabness of Conservative Philosophy
- How the Right Distorted Libertarianism
- ReImagining Liberty 002: "Does Political Liberty Require Social Liberalism?"
- ReImagining Liberty Podcast
- ReImagining Liberty 001: How To Be a Better Advocate for Liberty
- Liberty Upsets Patterns—and Conservatism
- The American Right Never Really Loved Freedom
- Why Josh Hawley Hates Your Freedom
- The Last Jedi Betrays the Original Trilogy and its Heroes