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The warmth of corruptivism
Leftists relate to the concept of collectivism purely based on vibes. They don't realize that what they want only Western individualism can give them…
Jan 16
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Thinking, Fast and Loose
On public intellectual masturbation. Progressives think they’re System 2 and everyone else is System 1.
Oct 21, 2025
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The Classroom Panic Over ‘Trump Boys’: The ideological bias of NZ educators
A moral panic stirred up by the fact that young people no longer buy the hyper-progressive narratives enforced in school. Yell "toxic", "Trump", and…
Oct 1, 2025
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Fragile masculinity in adolescent boys: On "aggressive cognitions".
Aug 29, 2024
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Nature is not "hell" (against utilitarians, part 2)
Jun 10, 2025
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The most hypocritical social scientist
Sep 17, 2024
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Reign of Error: The failure of social science.
Dec 18, 2024
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Stoner logic in academia
Aug 26, 2024
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Misspecified utilitarians hate existence (against utilitarians, part 1)
May 22, 2025
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Culture/Politics
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The warmth of corruptivism
Leftists relate to the concept of collectivism purely based on vibes. They don't realize that what they want only Western individualism can give them…
Jan 16
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Brandon
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3
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Thinking, Fast and Loose
On public intellectual masturbation. Progressives think they’re System 2 and everyone else is System 1.
Oct 21, 2025
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Brandon
21
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The Classroom Panic Over ‘Trump Boys’: The ideological bias of NZ educators
A moral panic stirred up by the fact that young people no longer buy the hyper-progressive narratives enforced in school. Yell "toxic", "Trump", and…
Oct 1, 2025
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Brandon
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The Invisible Left Hand
The left's outlook on tradition, morality, stigma, social norms, etc., shows they believe in the underlying logic of the 'invisible hand'—just not in…
Jul 7, 2025
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Social Science
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A Fetish for Theory
On the now widespread idea that theory will fix everything in the social sciences. In the absence of viewpoint diversity, it won't.
Jul 30, 2025
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Reign of Error: The failure of social science.
Ideological homogeneity, the canonization of poor research, biased measurement, premature scientific foreclosure, invalid findings, citation bias…
Dec 18, 2024
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The most hypocritical social scientist
John Jost is the epitome of the social scientist as motivated political ideologue. In his paper "Grand Challenge: Social psychology without hubris", his…
Sep 17, 2024
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Fragile masculinity in adolescent boys: On "aggressive cognitions".
A perfect little exemplar of the kind of research that holds up entire worldviews and theories on masculinity.
Aug 29, 2024
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Hunting/Outdoors
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Return to Paradise
Another one for the Outdoors section. I am completely burned out on social science and academia. Still keeping an eye on the exit. Here I discuss a…
Dec 12, 2024
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A Tale of Two Rams: an account of wild sheep hunting in New Zealand
Sprinkled along the shores and slips above certain rivers in the central North Island of New Zealand you can find, in discrete little pockets, feral…
Oct 18, 2024
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Back-Country Therapy, or, Mountains and Mental Health
A story of hunting and battling near crippling panic attacks. How forcing myself back into the mountains helped to cure my anxiety. I call it…
Oct 15, 2024
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The phenomenology of hunting: A cure for alienation and disembodiment
In my first piece on hunting I tried to articulate some of my thinking on the morality of hunting:
Sep 24, 2024
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