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I was listening to Matt Taibbi tell Brett Weinstein the story of the Tsunami in Indonesia as an analogy of ‘what’s going on’ right now. I’ll paraphrase: In Indonesia, Tsunami are not a regular occurrence, so the people there are not familiar...

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“If you think an opinionated, disorganized, confused, internally conflicted population of individuals has anything resembling ‘rights’ you’ve probably confused an abstraction with the results of unified, mutually concerned people who »protect...

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“When I was an adult I died in the woods and was eaten by wolves.” — actual statement of 4-year old girl

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“What you do or say to one man, all men hear and know. There is no exception. Above the place where we seem to be individuals. So that each time one relates with a man, any man at all, one is relating with ‘The Man of All Men’ that all men are, have...

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To be clear: It’s my sense that this is a time when we have to be selective about rejecting someone’s intelligence or insight simply because we cannot sign up for his or her entire card. The other day someone was surprised when I said that Jordan Peterson...