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1. When analyzing political discourse, one must distinguish between the formal meaning and the operational meaning. The formal meaning is more or less the dictionary definition of the words; the

1. We are constantly told we live in a pervasively racist country, yet (1) the media disproportionately cover police shootings of POCs; (2) the media ignore trivial facts about crime

1. What is conservatism and why am I a conservative. In my view, a conservative is a person who believes (1) in original sin; (2) there are no solutions, only

1. I am a law and order conservative, and I generally respect and support the police, but that doesn't mean my support for them is unqualified. And it doesn't mean

1. Thread on progressive political language. Many terms and phrases in political discourse have at least two meanings. This makes it difficult to debate and combat noxious movements because they

1. Thread. On getting cancelled and humbly asking for support. Please read my (long) thread, and if you think that you'd like to provide any support for me, then go

A person once scolded me something like: “how dare you use data and arguments to challenge the lived experience of minorities.”Isn’t that the point of all science and philosophy? To

1. Thread. Political language. Many ideological terms have at least two meanings, one to get you to sign up and one to promote a radical cause. “Black Lives Matter,” “Feminism,“

I have defended individualism for my entire adult life, because I disdain racial-identity politics. But the country is going another direction. And so long as our discourse blames current whites

The only way to create the right incentives is to praise the very few intellectuals who maintain their integrity and to lament those who cave to the mob. I mean,

1. Although I've long described myself as a moderate or a centrist, and I still have sympathy with centrism and moderatism, I now feel so alienated from the political left

1. Thread. Despite many easy to criticize flaws, my intellectual hero remains Noam Chomsky, the man who revolutionized linguistics, significantly contributed to the burgeoning cognitive psychology movement, and did more