George Orwell – Political language is degraded by lazy habits—stale metaphors, pretentious diction, vague phrases—that conceal meaning and corrupt thought. Clear, precise writing can resist this decline, restoring honesty to politics.

David Chapman – Subcultures rise when passionate creators attract dedicated fans, but inevitably collapse as casual enthusiasts dilute authenticity and sociopaths exploit the scene. To preserve value, geeks must learn to be slightly evil.

Dominic Cummings – Winning the EU ref wasn’t simple or inevitable. Victory stemmed from exploiting major societal forces, specific tactics, opponent errors & navigating intense infighting against establishment power.

Ann Blair – Faced with information overload since the 16th century, scholars devised methods like selective reading, efficient indexing, strategic note-taking, and compilations to manage ever-growing mountains of texts.

Peter Welch – Programming is assembling sanity from madness: teams are irrational, standards imaginary, code inherently chaotic—and we’re all quietly losing our minds to keep the internet barely alive.

Tal Yarkoni – researchers routinely mismatch verbal hypotheses with overly simplistic statistical models. By ignoring variability in stimuli, tasks, or contexts (modeling only subjects as random effects), many studies dramatically overstate findings, inflating false positives.

Devin Helton – Boston’s busing crisis wasn’t a simplistic morality play: forced integration failed academically, worsened racial hostility, overlooked black violence, empowered judicial hubris, and revealed media’s power to distort history.

Daniel Chambliss – excellence arises not from innate talent or extraordinary effort, but from the systematic accumulation of ordinary, deliberate practices. Elite swimmers exemplify that greatness emerges through qualitative shifts in technique, discipline, and habit, rather than …

Nick Szabo – Beware of belief systems that depend on near-impossible odds for astronomical outcomes. Their flimsy evidence and skewed risk assessments spawn unfalsifiable illusions.

Julius Krein – Today’s economy prioritizes financial valuations over real growth, driving U.S. firms to chase short-term asset returns through financial engineering, outsourcing, and disinvestment.

Douglas Hofstadter – a playful yet profound dialogue that explores the nature of selfhood, consciousness, and free will through the metaphor of the “careenium”—a chaotic yet self-organizing system of interacting elements. It asks: What is the meaning of the word ‘I’?

Mikhail Dyakonov – The proposed strategy for building a quantum computer relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables. That’s very doubtful to succeed.

Joseph Heath – A discussion of Iain M. Banks’ Culture series that imagines a post-scarcity utopia where technology liberates humanity from functional constraints, leaving culture as the dominant evolutionary force.

Allen Farrington – Taleb’s writing is insightful but his online persona is that of a bullying, intellectually dishonest charlatan.

Mencius Moldbug – Major parts of American cities that were thriving in 1950 have now fallen into chaos and ruin. Meanwhile, Palo Alto is full of beautiful young people adoring every detail of their new Retina iPads. Which of these phenomena is more relevant?

Science Banana – Exposes the global knowledge game as a fraud sustained by reified abstractions and bad metaphors. Ethnomethodology reveals meaning as irreducibly context-bound, leaving only tacit knowledge and linguistic quicksand.

Clayton Atreus – An unflinching account of the existential horror of paraplegia – both a memoir and a suicide note. About the realities of paralysis, the false optimism of disability culture, and the moral failure of a world that denies people the right to die on their own terms.

The Last Psychiatrist – Dissects sex addiction not as indulgence but as an unrelenting dialectic of desire and disgust, repetition compulsion masquerading as novelty-seeking. The pathology isn’t just in the sex but in the failed attempt at intimacy.

Peter Robinson – Long Covid illustrates how illness, culture, and psychology interact. A neurologist reflects on Havana Syndrome, Long Covid, TikTok Tourette’s, and the rise of functional neurological disorders. As media spreads awareness, it also shapes illness, blurring the …

C. S. Lewis – We all secretly crave acceptance into the hidden circles quietly shaping our lives. Yet pursuing this invisible status often corrupts us, leaving only dissatisfaction. Genuine belonging, free from the endless chase for approval, is found elsewhere.

Richard Grenier – A critical look at the indian propaganda film ‘Gandhi, exposing its historical inaccuracies and portrayal of a sanitized hero. A dicussion of Gandhi’s complex life and controversial views on race, caste, and his early allegiance to the British …

Sarah Perry – Ritual is everywhere, quietly shaping human life—even yours. What seems irrational—painful ceremonies, costly sacrifices, taboo behaviors—is actually vital social glue. This exploration reveals why rituals bind us and why modern life remains deeply ritualistic.

Bruce Gilley – Colonial governance often delivered stability, infrastructure, and economic progress—precisely what vanished after independence. It’s time to reconsider whether colonial-style interventions, done consensually, could help rebuild failing states today.

Oliver Consa – Quantum electrodynamics is considered the most precise theory in physics, yet its foundations rest on a single experimental value. This paper examines historical inconsistencies, mathematical sleights of hand, and hidden assumptions that challenge its accuracy.